Is this considered black magic?

[Michael Hudson]

Just van Rossum <just at letterror.com> writes:

> I think three-arg getattr() is faster than catching an exception.

It depends how often you expect it to fail.  Personally, I would have
thought masking the error at all was the wrong response, but I haven't
read all of the thread that carefully...

Cheers,
M.

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