[Python-Dev] getattr vs hashattr

[Chris Withers]

> On 03/12/2014 04:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> You can use hasattr() in place of AttributeError

Is that true now? It used to be that hasattr swallowed all exceptions 
rather than just AttributeError making is a very dangerous weapon for 
anything (such as an orm or odb) that might do something interesting 
when you try and get an attribute from it.

On 12/03/2014 21:37, Tres Seaver wrote:
> I use:
>
>   getattr(subject, attrname, default)?
>
> *all the time*.

On this one, did anything ever come of making getattr have a default 
default of None?

Chris

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