how to get around recursive method call

[Skaperen]

your reply code shows it getting the attribute of something else using the name object. but i don't have that. i need to have it return the attribute of itself. thus, i need to find a way to get the attribute of itself without calling itself.

---

i want to have object A behave like object B except for intended differences. i implement the methods intended to be different. for the remaining methods, i don't even know what all they are, or will be in the future, so i implement __getattribute__ to pass references. that method ends up referencing itself to reference object B. because it references itself, it ends up calling itself.

def __getattribute__(self,attr):
    print(f'getting attribute {attr!r}',flush=True) # so i can see what is happening
    return self.objectb.__getattribute__(attr)

output will be one line for the first attribute then a few hundred for 'objectb', hence the recursion loop.

---

even your code will have this problem since it gets attributes inside itself.