[Zope-dev] __getattr__ and Acquisition

[Leonardo Rochael Almeida]

On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 18:39, Andreas Kostyrka wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've just discovered, that Acquisition does not work with __getattr__,
> right?
> 
> (I assume that this is so because something like getattr(mybase,attr) is
> called during the acquisition process to prevent infinite recursion.)

I believe that is correct.

> 
> Anyway to get around that? (To basically get a wrapped self from
> somewhere?)

You might want to look at PortableHole for inspiration. It does get
around getattr problems with acquisition:

http://www.zope.org/Members/TheJester/PortableHole

Cheers, Leo

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