[Zope] hasattr in tal:condition

Tue Mar 16 04:20:51 EST 2004

Andre Meyer wrote:

>    <span tal:condition="python:test(hasattr(request, results), 1, 
> 0)">span</span>

using hasattr in any Zope-ish python is BAD, since it ignores all exceptions, 
including things like ConflictErrors, which you NEVER want to catch...

> PS in the full version the statement looks as follows:
> 
>    <body tal:define="results python:test(hasattr(request, results), 
> request.results, here.Catalog()); ... >

<body tal:define="results getattr(request,'results',here.Catalog()); ... >

cheers,

Chris

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