Message 197884 - Python tracker

Message197884

Author	pitrou
Recipients	barry, eli.bendersky, ethan.furman, ncoghlan, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date	2013-09-16.09:06:24
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> Right, we definitely want inspect to swallow the exceptions from > descriptors. My suggestion is merely to switch the order to be: > 1. Try getattr > 2. If that throws an exception, check __dict__ directly > 3. If neither works (e.g. due to a buggy __dir__ method), ignore the > attribute entirely. Are you talking about descriptors defined on the class or the metaclass? :-)

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> Right, we definitely want inspect to swallow the exceptions from
> descriptors. My suggestion is merely to switch the order to be:
> 1. Try getattr
> 2. If that throws an exception, check __dict__ directly
> 3. If neither works (e.g. due to a buggy __dir__ method), ignore the
> attribute entirely.

Are you talking about descriptors defined on the class or the metaclass? :-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-09-16 09:06:24	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, barry, ncoghlan, r.david.murray, eli.bendersky, ethan.furman
2013-09-16 09:06:24	pitrou	link	issue19030 messages
2013-09-16 09:06:24	pitrou	create