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Is except: ... pass bad style?

marduk marduk at python.net
Thu Sep 9 16:38:50 EDT 2004 
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:29:08 -0400, Istvan Albert wrote:

> I personally don't like this, not because of pylint but because
> it feels like using the wrong solution for the problem.
> You could create a base class that has a method that
> does nothing and have all your objects inherit from that.
> 
> This solution does properly communicate
> that the method is optional. Not to mention that you need
> to repeat the whole thing if used again in a different
> circumstance. Plus something could go wrong inside
> existing methods and you'd never know about it.
> 
> Why risk all that?

This is probably overkill for my current circumstance, but I may consider
it in the future.  Besides, the class in question is third-party and I'm
merely trying to call method if it exists (version n) and do nothing if it
doesn't exist (version n-1).  Although I could subclass the third-party
class and override method()... but as I said, overkill for me right now as
I'm only using the object/method once.

I really liked the getattr suggestion.  Thanks to all who responded.
 




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