__getattr__ equivalent for methods

Question

When an attribute is not found object.__getattr__ is called. Is there an equivalent way to intercept undefined methods?

Priapic

Answer 1

Methods are attributes too. __getattr__ works the same for them:

class A(object):

  def __getattr__(self, attr):
    print attr

Then try:

>>> a = A()
>>> a.thing
thing
>>> a.thing()
thing
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

Letishaletitia

Answer 2

There is no difference. A method is also an attribute. (If you want the method to have an implicit "self" argument, though, you'll have to do some more work to "bind" the method).

Brachycephalic

Second that, everything is an object, no matter if it's int, str or function. – Aerophyte

Answer 3

you didn't return anything.

class A(object):

  def __getattr__(self, attr):
    return attr

should work

Fisher