At 06:12 PM 8/23/2010 -0400, Yury Selivanov wrote:
BTW, is it possible to add new magic method __hasattr__? Maybe not in Python 3.2, but in general.
In order to do this properly, you'd need to also add __has__ or __exists__ (or some such) to the descriptor protocol; otherwise you break descriptors' ability to operate independently of the class they're used in. You would probably also need a __hasattribute__, in order to be able to properly synchronize with __getattr__/__getattribute__. Seems like overkill to me, though, as I'm not sure how such a protocol actually helps ORM or persistence schemes (and I've written a few). Pretty much, if you're trying to check for the existence of an attribute, you're probably about to be getting that attribute anyway. (i.e. why query the existence of an attribute you *don't* intend to use?)