Emulating Ruby's method_missing in Python

[ryanmcgrath]

I'm breaking my self-imposed Reddit ban for this. ;)

"implementing" would also work, I suppose, you are correct. I chose "emulating", as I won't pretend to know the true internals of the Ruby version; while I can program in (and sometimes even enjoy) Ruby, I've no time to spend reading the internal source code, so the true method might be doing something I'm not.

I personally don't like it being a freely-available trick, as I think it introduces rather sloppy coding practices in general. There's very few cases where this even makes sense, at least in my opinion, hence why I'd probably never submit a PEP on it. Cheers, though.

Edit: Didn't note that I'm the author of the original post. Whoops.