Re: [Gnumed-devel] proposal for dbapi base class

[Horst Herb]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:59, Horst Herb wrote:
>        class lazytable:
>                 def __getattr__(self, key):
>                         try:
>                                 return self.__dict__[key]
>                         except:
>                                 value = fetch_from_backend(key)
>                                 self.__dict__[key]= value
>                                 return value

Just to emphasize: fetch_from_backend would of course be smart enough to fetch 
as much data as possible without unreasonable performance penalty in the 
spirit of read-ahead caching. Not just fetch a single atribute per backend 
access

Horst