[Python-Dev] disappearing exceptions

[Mark Hammond]

Greg writes:
> Christian Heimes wrote:
> > Thankfully this issue was fixed in Python 2.6 and 3.0. In newer
> > versions of Python hasattr() only swallows exception based on 
> > the Exception class but not BaseExceptions.
> 
> Shouldn't it only be catching AttributeError, though?

This has come up before - eg
http://www.mail-archive.com/python-3000@python.org/msg11630.html - which
itself starts with the words "This issue has been raised before" :)  It
points at http://bugs.python.org/issue504714 regarding 2.x - however, if you
follow that thread above, it seems Guido is against changing this behaviour
even for 3k.

cheers,

Mark