How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/03/2016 16:38, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 07/03/2016 16:25, Xiang Zhang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know I can get the attribute name in some way, but since I just
>> want the attribute name when an AttributeError caused by it raised, I
>> really don't want to inspect the string or introduce one more layer
>> over getattr. I hope I can get the attribute which causes the
>> exception from the AttributeError raised directly. But it seems I
>> can't.
>>
>
> As things stand, you can't. But if you were to chime in on this issue:
>
>    https://bugs.python.org/issue18156
>
> then you might bring discussion there back to life again and see some
> forward movement. There seemed to be a consensus (and involving some
> active developers) so it's possible that new interest might revive interest.
>
> TJG
>

Thanks, you saved me searching for the link that I knew existed :)

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