Is except: ... pass bad style?

[Chris Cioffi]

I think that the getattr option would be your best/cleanest option. 
For best results, combine with the Null object pattern.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/68205

getattr(myobj, 'method', Null)() 

Clean, concise, and clear.  Just like most of the rest of Python. ;-)

Chris


On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:56:55 -0500, marduk <marduk at python.net> wrote:
> 
> Based on all the responses received thus far, I thought of a way of
> doing it without an exception:
> 
> myobj.__dict__.get('method', lambda : None)()
> 
> Which is okay if you don't care about the return value of the
> method (in my examples I'm assuming .method() just does something
> (and returns None).  But it's a lot uglier I think than the try/except
> block.
> 
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