"has" Operator

[Fredrik Lundh]

Paul Sidorsky wrote:
> I was thinking that Python might benefit from a "has" operator that
> would allow you to type something like this:
>
> if myobject has someattribute:
>     foo()
> else:
>     bar()

try this:

if hasattr(myobject, "someattribute"):
    spam()
else:
    egg()

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