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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2010-08-24 03:26:23 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2010-08-24 03:26:23 (GMT)
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@@ -463,10 +463,10 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
.. function:: hasattr(object, name)
- The arguments are an object and a string. The result is ``True`` if the string
- is the name of one of the object's attributes, ``False`` if not. (This is
- implemented by calling ``getattr(object, name)`` and seeing whether it raises an
- exception or not.)
+ The arguments are an object and a string. The result is ``True`` if the
+ string is the name of one of the object's attributes, ``False`` if not. (This
+ is implemented by calling ``getattr(object, name)`` and seeing whether it
+ raises an :exc:`AttributeError` or not.)
.. function:: hash(object)