__getattribute__

[Daniel Schüle]

Hello NG

is this kind of usage possible for classes
l = [1, 2, 3, 1]
l.__getattribute__("count")(1)

for example
f = foo()

def bar(t, m, p):
t.__getattribute__(m)(p)
regards

Daniel

[Peter Hansen]

Daniel Schüle wrote:

is this kind of usage possible for classes
l = [1, 2, 3, 1]
l.__getattribute__("count")(1)

Yes, but for various reasons it's spelled like this:

c:\>python
Python 2.3.4 (#53, May 25 2004, 21:17:02) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32

l = [1, 2, 3, 1]
getattr(l, "count")(1)

2

Under the covers it uses __getattr__ (and it's surprising
you didn't find that in your searches for this), but
you shouldn't call that directly, normally.

-Peter