2010/8/23 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> > wrote: >> 2010/8/23 Yury Selivanov <yseliva...@gmail.com>: >>> 1) I propose to change 'hasattr' behaviour in Python 3, making it to >>> swallow only AttributeError exceptions (exactly like 'getattr'). Probably, >>> Python 3.2 release is our last chance. >> >> I would be in support of that. > > I am cautiously in favor. The existing behavior is definitely a > mistake and a trap. But it has been depended on for almost 20 years > now. > > I recommend that you create a patch, apply it, run the *entire* stdlib > test suite and see how much breaks. That will give you an idea of the > damage to expect for 3rd party code.
The test suite passes complete without modification for me. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ 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
