[Python-ideas] Specificity in AttributeError

[Eric Snow]

On Apr 26, 2013 10:45 PM, "Devin Jeanpierre" <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Code:
>      class A:
>         @property
>         def text(self):
>             return self.foo
>
> Behavior:
>     >>> hasattr(A(), 'text')
>     False
>
> Actually, this is absolutely correct. "A().y" does not give a result
> -- in fact, it raises AttributeError. Behavior wise, this is exactly
> what it means for an attribute to not exist.
>

What about using inspect.getattr_static()?

def hasattr_static(obj, name):
    try:
        getattr_static(obj, name)
    except AttributeError:
        return False
    else:
        return True

-eric
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