Bug: 2.7.1 break faker locale generator

[SteinRobert]

Description

After upgrading from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1 my tests fail due to a change in how faker is used.
Error:

/factories.py:93: in vat_identifier
    return cls.__faker__.vat_id()
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self = <faker.proxy.Faker object at 0x103626ad0>, attr = 'vat_id'

    def __getattr__(self, attr: str) -> Any:
        """
        Handles cache access and proxying behavior
    
        :param attr: attribute name
        :return: the appropriate attribute
        """
        if len(self._factories) == 1:
>           return getattr(self._factories[0], attr)
E           AttributeError: 'Generator' object has no attribute 'vat_id'

URL to code causing the issue

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MCVE

# Works in 2.7.0 not in 2.7.1:
class SellerFactory(ModelFactory[Seller]):
    __model__ = Seller
    __set_as_default_factory_for_type__ = True
    __faker__ = Faker(locale="de_DE")
    __random_seed__ = 10

    @classmethod
    def vat_identifier(cls) -> str:
        return cls.__faker__.vat_id()

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Release Version

2.7.1

Platform

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[Goldziher]

@guacs can you check this?

[guacs]

@guacs can you check this?

Yupp

[SteinRobert]

Thank you very much! Do you know when's the next release?

[guacs]

@SteinRobert sorry for the delay, but I'm not sure exactly when the next release is going to be. It might take a bit of time actually.

For the time being, you could do two things:

1. pin polyfactory to a version that does not break things

2. override the seed_random method on the factory that you're using Faker with the following piece of code:

   @classmethod
   def seed_random(cls, seed) -> None:
       cls.__random__ = Random(seed)
       cls.__faker__.seed_instance(seed)