Comment by 3pt14159
2 years ago
If you are calling something immediately, a try-except is ok. If you are calling with a try-except just to simulate hasattr or getattr then why do we have the built-ins in the first place?
2 years ago
If you are calling something immediately, a try-except is ok. If you are calling with a try-except just to simulate hasattr or getattr then why do we have the built-ins in the first place?
“Just try and then handle the exception” is a pretty weird paradigm for this sort of thing, to those of us who come from more typical languages. So I suspect they just included hasattr to make us more comfortable.