Question

I’ve got a class:

class Foo():
    def bar(name):
        return something

and i want to have

foo = Foo()
foo.name 

returning the same as foo.bar(‘name’). Is it possible?

Answer 1

This will automatically use bar if the attribute doesn’t exist:

class Foo(object):
    def bar(self, name):
        return name
    def bar2(self, attr, value):
        print attr, value
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return self.bar(attr)
    def __setattr__(self, attr, value):
        self.bar2(attr, value)
foo = Foo()
print foo.name
foo.name = 'not name'