Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Ant enlightened us with: >> try: >> assertion = callable.is_assertion >> except: >> pass > > Try to make a habit out of catching only the exceptions you know will > be thrown. Catching everything generally is a bad idea. In this case, > my bet is that catching AttributeError is enough.
and assertion = hasattr(callable, "is_assertion") is even nicer (and can be done as part of the if-statement after the call, in- stead of in a separate try/except before the call) </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list