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Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings?

From Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings?
Date 2016-03-07 16:38 +0000
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On 07/03/2016 16:25, Xiang Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know I can get the attribute name in some way, but since I just
> want the attribute name when an AttributeError caused by it raised, I
> really don't want to inspect the string or introduce one more layer
> over getattr. I hope I can get the attribute which causes the
> exception from the AttributeError raised directly. But it seems I
> can't.
> 

As things stand, you can't. But if you were to chime in on this issue:

  https://bugs.python.org/issue18156

then you might bring discussion there back to life again and see some
forward movement. There seemed to be a consensus (and involving some
active developers) so it's possible that new interest might revive interest.

TJG

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How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? ZhangXiang <zhangyangyu0614@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 00:46 -0800
  Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-03-07 10:48 +0100
    Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? Xiang Zhang <zhangyangyu0614@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 02:15 -0800
  Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? jmp <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2016-03-07 11:50 +0100
    Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? Xiang Zhang <zhangyangyu0614@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 08:25 -0800
      Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2016-03-07 16:38 +0000
        Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? Xiang Zhang <zhangyangyu0614@gmail.com> - 2016-03-07 09:01 -0800
      Re: How to get which attribute causes the AttributeError except inspecting strings? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-03-07 17:26 +0000

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