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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Aug 24 00:47:39 CEST 2010


On Aug 23, 2010, at 03:45 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

It's generally more convenient that getattr(obj, "blah", None) is not None.

Clearly, the solution is a new builtin called 'Missing'.

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