Theerasak Photha wrote: > On 10/11/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> can be a lot better than a 30-level traceback that ends with a line >> looking something like >> >> fnut.index(gah) > > Despite long experience with Perl, I am not a big follower of the > "goose_level: blah" method of error reporting... > >> also, checking for __method__ is, in general, not the right way to check >> if an object implements a given interface. > > I had a vague feeling it might not be a Right Thing(tm). > <flame-proof-underwear>I kind of miss > responds_to?</flame-proof-underwear>
getattr(obj, name[,default]) is your friend. Remember that methods are just callable attributes. >> so if you can, try doing the operation instead, and catch error (if you >> really need to check first, use an idempotent operation, if available). > > I'll do that as soon as my green noggin figures out what 'idempotent' > means. idempotent -> no side effects. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list