From 95d2614f2197e56b4c2d73f1453e7c772efcd64c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Fritz <nathan@andyet.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:03:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix for bug #18

---
 sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
index 7a5ba4a1..a0a3a337 100644
--- a/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
+++ b/sleekxmpp/xmlstream/stanzabase.py
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ class ElementBase(tostring.ToString):
 	subitem = None
 
 	def __init__(self, xml=None, parent=None):
-		self.attrib = self # backwards compatibility hack
 		self.parent = parent
 		self.xml = xml
 		self.plugins = {}
@@ -57,6 +56,11 @@ class ElementBase(tostring.ToString):
 				if self.subitem is not None and child.tag == "{%s}%s" % (self.subitem.namespace, self.subitem.name):
 					self.iterables.append(self.subitem(xml=child, parent=self))
 
+    def _getattrib(self):
+        return self
+    
+    attrib = property(_getattrib) # backwards compatibility
+
 	def __iter__(self):
 		self.idx = 0
 		return self