I know how to override an object's getattr() to handle calls to undefined object functions. However, I would like to achieve the same behavior for the builtin getattr() function. For instance, consider code like this:

   call_some_undefined_function()

Normally, that simply produces an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'call_some_undefined_function' is not defined

I want to override getattr() so that I can intercept the call to "call_some_undefined_function()" and figure out what to do.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

--Steve