[Pyrex] getattr

[Greg Ewing]

Martin Field wrote:
> I guess
> the Python version can take 3 arguments (the third being optional)
> whereas the API version only takes 2. Is there some (easy!) way
> of mimicking this behaviour in Pyrex

You could write yourself a function

   cdef object getattr3(object obj, char *attr, object default):
     try:
       return getattr(obj, attr)
     except AttributeError:
       return default

I may include something like this as a Pyrex builtin
if the current behaviour turns out to be too much of a
nuisance.

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