Which idiom is better? try: ... except Attr..Err or hasattr?

[Darrell]

From: "P.J.W.S. Vrijlandt" 
> 
> According to the manual,  hasattr is implemented by calling getattr 
> and seeing if an exception occurs, so hasattr will not be faster than 
> try...except...
> 
Looks like hasattr is still faster.

from time import *

def f1():
    t1=time()
    for x in range(1000000):
        if hasattr(dic, 'xx'):
            pass
    print time()-t1

def f2():
    t1=time()
    for x in range(1000000):
        try:
            dic['xxx']
        except:            
            pass
    print time()-t1

f1()

f2()

6.84399998188
40.1719999313

--Darrell