Cameron Laird wrote:
> Guys, I try--I try *hard*--to accept the BetterToAskForgiveness
> gospel, but this situation illustrates the discomfort I consistently
> feel: how do I know that the NameError means VARIABLE didn't resolve,
> rather than that it did, but that evaluation of commands.VARIABLE()
> itself didn't throw a NameError? My usual answer: umm, unless I go
> to efforts to prevent it, I *don't* know that didn't happen.
two notes:
1) getattr() raises an AttributeError if the attribute doesn't exist, not a
NameError.
2) as you point out, doing too much inside a single try/except often results in
hard-
to-find errors and confusing error messages. the try-except-else pattern comes
in
handy in cases like this:
try:
f = getattr(commands, name)
except AttributeError:
print "command", name, "not known"
else:
f()
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