Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Jul 8 04:12:55 EDT 1999

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Toby J Sargeant <tjs at longford.cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> The following code causes a coredump under python 1.5.2
> 
> class Stuffed:
>    def __getattr__(self,key):
>       print self
> 
> print Stuffed()

python looks for __str__ and/or __repr__ attributes when
you print an instance object, so that "print self" sends you
right back to __getattr__.

you run out of stack space, in other words.

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