On 13/02/2007 7.39, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > And again. Apparently, people favor hasattr over catching > AttributeError. I'm not sure why this is -
Because the code becomes longer, unless you want to mask other exceptions: name = 'http_error_%d' % errcode -if hasattr(self, name): - method = self.(name) +try: + method = self.(name) +except AttributeError: + pass +else: if data is None: result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers) else: result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data) if result: return result return self.http_error_default(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers) -- Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com