How do I properly override __setattr__ and __getattribute__ on new-style classes in Python?
It's
super(ABCImmutable, self).__setattr__(name, value)
in Python 2, or
super().__setattr__(name, value)
in Python 3.
Also, raising AttributeError
is not how you fall back to the default behavior for __getattribute__
. You fall back to the default with
return super(ABCImmutable, self).__getattribute__(name)
on Python 2 or
return super().__getattribute__(name)
on Python 3.
Raising AttributeError
skips the default handling and goes to __getattr__
, or just produces an AttributeError
in the calling code if there's no __getattr__
.
See the documentation on Customizing Attribute Access.