Antoine Pitrou writes: > Sure, but complaining about inefficiencies without asserting their > significance is not very useful.
Since you completely missed the point of my post, I'll explain. I was in no way complaining about inefficiencies. My point was precisely the opposite: to the extent that most 'get' methods would be implemented in Python, even the minor inefficiency of creating and suppressing a useless exception can't be avoided with the LBYL of a get method, because haveattr itself is implemented by generating and suppressing an exception. I know that it's not a big deal[1], but it did help swing me to positive on this PEP. Footnotes: [1] If it were, somebody would have reimplemented haveattr to avoid generating an exception. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com