Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Mon Jun 20 23:37:34 EDT 2011

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Spencer Pearson wrote:
> I was recently trying to implement a dict-like object which would do
> some fancy stuff when it was modified, and found that overriding the
> __setitem__ method of an instance did not act the way I expected. 

The __magic__ methods are only looked up on the class, never the instance.

~Ethan~

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