TBH, this is what happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force haha. I saw the rest of your comment above now, and I realize (please bear in mind, I was typing on my phone while walking through noisy Praha, after some wine) that I was thinking of getattr while I was typing that. I also scrolled up to realize the bug you mentioned (re: returning the sentinel value). Also, my gratuitous use of the misspelled "SENTINAL".
Despite our alpha mentalities, we are not worlds apart, truthfully. My original response came across sounding hardliner pro-try-except, anti-anything-else, but my point was only that people abuse exception handling in their primary business code (e.g., directly handling a network IOError in a Django view). As a result, they have a bad time. Libraries and utils should be relegated to exception handling duties like that. When following principles like developers love Python's try / except blocks for their clarity.
No, that's not "what happens haha." Those are several lame and, frankly, childish excuses instead of just owning that you arrogantly and condescendingly misjudged my competence and inappropriately spoke down to me like you were the universe's gift to comprehension of error handling in Python. You should learn from the experience and assume at all times that you are not the most skilled person in the conversation. I am never the most skilled person in any conversation, which, ironically given your assertions about me earlier in this thread, allows me to learn quite a bit.
Do not project your "alpha mentality" onto me, please. I am the polar opposite of "alpha." That was all you.
You were wrong, and I didn't stoop down to assuming anything about your competence as you so desperately tried to get me to do. Instead of blaming wine like a child, you should probably objectively look at yourself and your judgments of people. Your attitude is not uncommon, and I specifically look for it when I interview.
I'd have a lot more respect for you if you'd own the mistake, but I can tell that you're not going to, so this will be my last comment in this thread as well.
