Xiao-Qin Xia xx758 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Feb 25 13:18:32 EST 2003

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Dear Steven Taschuk, 

>     __getattr__(self, name)
>         Called when an attribute lookup has not found the attribute in the
>         usual places (i.e. it is not an instance attribute nor is it found
>         in the class tree for self). [...]
> 
> So if self.text_widget has been bound, a reference to it will be
> resolved normally, and __getattr__ will not be called.
 
I hope so, but it doesn't seem to be the truth. In the codes I presented, 
self.text_widget should be created at the same time when the instace is 
created. But obviously __getattr__ will be called if __init__ calls Text to 
create self.text_widget, instead of create it by itself. 

This problem make it to be dangerous to override __getattr__.

Regards,
Xiao-Qin

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