Lucas Wiman lucas.wiman at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 16:07:41 EDT 2017

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On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>
wrote:

> [...] Calling __getattr__() will slow down the access to builtins. And
> there is a recursion problem if module's __getattr__() uses builtins.
>

 The first point is totally valid, but the recursion problem doesn't seem
like a strong argument. There are already lots of recursion problems when
defining custom __getattr__ or __getattribute__ methods, but on balance
they're a very useful part of the language.

- Lucas
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