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Subject: Re: Languages (was: Re: More Funny Stuff From The Joke Python)
Date: 24 Jun 2024 17:05:15 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 08:58:32 -0000 (UTC), Sebastian Wells wrote:

> The thing that made foo.bar's actual value special was that its class
> defined the magic methods __get__, __set__, and __delete__.
> 
> I don't remember how I discovered the existence of this object. Even
> Python's getattr() and setattr() functions are overridden. This
> "feature" of Python is little known.

The use of dunders is a well known feature of the language.