A get() like method for checking for Python attributes

Question

If I had a dictionary dict and I wanted to check for dict[\'key\'] I could either do so in a try block (bleh!) or use the get()<

Answer 1

A more direct analogue to dict.get(key, default) than hasattr is getattr.

val = getattr(obj, 'attr_to_check', default_value)

(Where default_value is optional, raising an exception on no attribute if not found.)

For your example, you would pass False.