- Fixed namespace.__getattr__() to raise
  AttributeError on attribute not found
  instead of RuntimeError.  [ticket:104]

CHANGES

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index c81d5bc..c58b10a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,9 +6,14 @@
   other uses there may be (but there may be).
   Examples are in the "filtering" docs.
   
+- Fixed namespace.__getattr__() to raise 
+  AttributeError on attribute not found 
+  instead of RuntimeError.  [ticket:104]
+  
 - Added last_modified accessor to Template,
   returns the time.time() when the module
   was created. [ticket:97]
+
 - Fixed lexing support for whitespace
   around '=' sign in defs. [ticket:102]
   

lib/mako/runtime.py

diff --git a/lib/mako/runtime.py b/lib/mako/runtime.py
index f4ef503..62b504a 100644
--- a/lib/mako/runtime.py
+++ b/lib/mako/runtime.py
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
 
         if self.inherits is not None:
             return getattr(self.inherits, key)
-        raise exceptions.RuntimeException("Namespace '%s' has no member '%s'" % (self.name, key))
+        raise AttributeError("Namespace '%s' has no member '%s'" % (self.name, key))
 
 def supports_caller(func):
     """apply a caller_stack compatibility decorator to a plain Python function."""

test/namespace.py

diff --git a/test/namespace.py b/test/namespace.py
index 1515809..a3cabd7 100644
--- a/test/namespace.py
+++ b/test/namespace.py
@@ -371,7 +371,22 @@
             "foo lala",
         ]
     
-    
+    def test_attr_raise(self):
+        l = lookup.TemplateLookup()
+
+        l.put_string("foo.html", """
+            <%def name="foo()">
+            </%def>
+        """)
+
+        l.put_string("bar.html", """
+        <%namespace name="foo" file="foo.html"/>
+        
+        ${foo.notfoo()}
+        """)
+
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, l.get_template("bar.html").render)
+        
     def test_custom_tag_1(self):
         template = Template("""