How to override built-in getattr in Python?
- by Stephen Gross
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
