module level __getattr__ (intermediate) anthony explains

today I talk about one of the ways to introduce magic in python -- module level `__getattr__`. I also walk through the usual uses of this as well as some of the more magical ones!
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[@Phaust94]

Man, I've been coding Python for 6 years by now - and never heard of __dir__ for tab completion. This channel is pure gold.

[@Quarky_]

Thanks for the __dir__ comment, I got stuck on this couple weeks ago when I was implementing __getattr__ to expose attributes of an underlying "private" object.

[@kai3341]

Thank you for video. Also great thank you for your english -- it's easy to recognize it and then understand

[@williamli55]

Hello Anthony. I've been watching your videos for a while now, and I think they're great. I was wondering if you might be willing to do a video which goes further into depth on __getattr__, __setattr__, and __getattribute__. I'd love to have a better understanding of how to properly use these methods. I feel like I often don't implement them properly.

[@dorb1337]

When I created a def __dir__(self): return list(globals()) under a class C (like you created, just with the __dir__ function inside the class instead of outside to it) and i called c.__dir__() I got a lot of random gibbrish output, do you have any idea what it might point to ? ( My idea was that when globals() is called under a class, it just returns some random memory values that points to stuff, but when printed to the screen has no meaning) . here's my output example - ['__name__',
'__doc__',
'__package__',
'__loader__',
'__spec__',
'__builtin__',
'__builtins__',
'_ih',
'_oh',
'_dh',
'In',
'Out',
'get_ipython',
'exit',
'quit',
'_',
'__',
'___',
'_i',
'_ii',
'_iii',
'_i1',
'C',
'_i2',
'_i3',
'c',
'_i4',
'_4',
'_i5',
'_i6',
'_6',
'_i7',
'B',
'_i8',
'b',
'_i9',
'_9',
'_i10',
'_10',
'_i11',
'A',
'_i12',
'_i13',
'a',
'_i14',
'_i15',
'_15',
'_i16',
'__dir__',
'_i17',
'_i18',
'_18',
'_i19',
'_i20',
'_i21',
'_21',
'_i22',
'_22',
'_i23']

[@anthonywritescode]

that's ipython garbage

[@b_0rk]

hi does this also work on python 2.4

[@cerealport2726]

You could just try it and see...but as was explained, it seems it was added in 3.7

[@xan1716]

what year is this 😅