[Python-Dev] Requesting pronouncement on PEP 463: Exception-catching expressions (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 22:49:07 CET 2014

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

On 03/12/2014 04:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:

You can use hasattr() in place of AttributeError I use: getattr(subject, attrname, default)? all the time.

Umm, yeah, that one. Why did I think hasattr was the only way around that? Anyway, that just means I picked a bad example. There are others where you have to go for the full try/except.

ChrisA

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