On 8/21/2010 1:21 PM, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
2010/8/21<pyt...@bdurham.com>:
Python 2.6: Is there a built-in way to check if a Unicode string has
non-ASCII chars without having to check each char in the string?
Here's my use case: I have a section of code that makes frequent calls to
hasattr. The attribute name being tested is derived from incoming data which
at times can contain international content.
Bad idea. Use a dict; don't try to pretend that an object is a dict.
This isn't Javascript. Incidentally, inheriting from "dict" works,
and is quite useful.
class item(dict) :
...
p = item()
p['abc'] = 1
That wasn't in early versions of Python, which led to a style of abusing
objects as if they were dictionaries.
Also note that 1) spaces in attribute names can be troublesome, and
2) duplicating the name of a function or built-in attribute will
override it, usually leading to unwanted results.
John Nagle
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