Collections of non-arbitrary objects ?

Marius Gedminas mgedmin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 14:21:11 EDT 2007


On Jun 24, 2:12 pm, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-
mail-0306.20.chr0n... at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> 7stud wrote:
> > if hasattr(elmt, some_func):
> >    elmt.some_func()
>
> Personally, I prefer
>
> try:
>     elmt.some_func()
> except AttributeError:
>     # do stuff

That also hides attribute errors that occur within some_func.  I think
I'd rather know when elmt has an implementation of some_func that is
buggy.  Thus I prefer the hasattr version.




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