[Python-Dev] 'hasattr' is broken by design (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Mon Aug 23 22:56:43 CEST 2010


2010/8/23 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

Changing C APIs is even harder than changing Python API because you can't add exceptions to something that wasn't returning exceptions before. We did that for comparisons in the past and it was a pain (but worth it). For these two little APIs I think it is not worth it, though it may be worth it to create new APIs that do return exceptions.

+1 I propose we add PyObject_HasattrWithErrors to parallel PyDict_GetItemWithErrors.

-- Regards, Benjamin



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