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Sun Mar 21 02:56:17 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098634.html

Michael Foord wrote:
> Well, the documentation you pointed to specifies that __getattr__ will
> be called if __getattribute__ raises an AttributeError, it just doesn't
> specify that it is done by object.__getattribute__ (which it isn't).

And as for why not: because __getattribute__ implementations need to be
able to call object.__getattribute__ without triggering the fallback
behaviour.

Cheers,
Nick.

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