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

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Thu Mar 13 16:31:00 CET 2014

Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> writes:

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.

In my opinion that's almost as ugly, because it still forces you to specify the attribute name as a string rather than an identifier.

Best, Nikolaus

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