[ZODB-Dev] How do you "wake up" sleepy persistent objects?

[Jim Fulton]

Chris Withers wrote:
> 
> Jim Fulton wrote:
> >
> > The only time to mess with a __dict__ is when you actually want
> > to defeat the normal persistence machinery.
> 
> ...or acquisition :-S
> 
> What's the recommended way of _really_ finding out whether an object has an
> attribute and making sure it hasn't been acquired?
> 
> (I used to use obj.__dict__.has_key('foo') but now i'm not sure...)

  hasattr(object.aq_base, name)

or, if you aren't sure that th object is wrapped:

  hasattr(Acquisition.aq_base(object), name)

Jim

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