On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:20 PM, Mario Ruggier wrote:
>
> Fair enough. I do certainly appreciate the current clarity of the
> code.... i would not have minded at all if I knew not to redefine
> __setattr__, or not to access class variables via self. With some
> documentation, and maybe catching of the exception, I would also agree
> to call it a reasonable restriction but, as it is,

Accessing class variables via self is fine in general.
The restriction is that you can't access self.anything
in *your* __setattr__() before the Persistent.__setattr__()
gets called.