Internal Accessor

person.py

class Person(object):
    
    def __init__(self, name, age, profile):
        self.name    = name
        self.age     = age
        self.profile = profile
        
    def __getattr__(self, key):
        if hasattr(self, key):
            return getattr(self, key)
        elif hasattr(self.profile, key):
            return getattr(self.profile, key)
        else:
            raise AttributeError("No value '%s' on Person" % key)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    profile = {
        'handle': '@bbengfort',
        'tweets': 52,
    }
    person = Person('Benjamin Bengfort', 42, profile)
    
    print person.name    # 'Benjamin Bengfort'
    print person.age     # 42
    print person.handle  # '@bbengfort'
    print person.tweets  # 52