Is except: ... pass bad style?

[Michael Hudson]

marduk <marduk at python.net> writes:

> 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)()

Uh, I'd say that's pretty unlikely to work.  What's wrong with
getattr()?

Cheers,
mwh

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