[Python-Dev] Summary of "dynamic attribute access" discussion

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> it means we'll be catching AttributeError
> instead of using "look before you leap", which if fine with me.

A thought on this: to avoid masking bugs, when catching
AttributeError you really need to isolate the getattr
operation so that it's on a line by itself, with no
sub-expressions, i.e.

   try:
     x = getattr(obj, name)
   except AttributeError:
     ...
   else:
     ...

If you're doing that, I see no significant lack of
readability in the getattr call that needs to be
remedied.

So I'm down to -2 now. :-)

--
Greg