google app engine - Dynamic Finders and Method Missing in Python

Question

I'm trying to implement something like Rails dynamic-finders in Python (for webapp/GAE). The dynamic finders work like this:

• Your Person has some fields: name, age and email.
• Suppose you want to find all the users whose name is "Robot".

The Person class has a method called "find_by_name" that receives the name and returns the result of the query:

 @classmethod
 def find_by_name(cls, name):
    return Person.gql("WHERE name = :1", name).get()

Instead of having to write a method like that for each attribute, I'd like to have something like Ruby's method_missing that allows me to do it.

So far I've seen these 2 blog posts: http://blog.iffy.us/?p=43 and http://www.whatspop.com/blog/2008/08/method-missing-in-python.cfm but I'd like to hear what's the "most appropiate" way of doing it.

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