Attribute access should not search recursively

[lordmauve]

When accessing an attribute on a node, RedBaron searches recursively for a matching node.

This is infuriating to program against because it finds matches that I don't expect, at any depth in the AST.

This makes working with blocks harder - if/elif/else, try/except/else/finally and so on.

>>> cond = RedBaron("""
... if foo:
...    if bar:
...       x
...    else:
...       y
... """)[0]
>>> cond.else_
else:
      y

Here the answer I'm looking for is None.

It is very odd that searching recursively is a convenient node.foo.bar while to avoid searching recursively is a laborious

node.find('foo', recursive=False).find('bar', recursive=False)

[lordmauve]

In case anyone wants a quick workaround for this, I wrote some monkey-patches using patchy:

import patchy

patchy.mc_patchface(Node.__getattr__, """
@@ -12,1 +12,1 @@
-    return self.find(key)
+    return self.find(key, recursive=False)
""")

patchy.mc_patchface(NodeList.__getattr__, """
@@ -7,1 +7,1 @@
-    return self.find(key)
+    return self.find(key, recursive=False)
""")