Antoine Pitrou writes:

 > Well, the only way to know that a key (or attribute) exists is to do
 > the lookup. What else would you suggest?

Do the lookup at the C level (or whatever the implementation language
is) and generate no exception, of course.  That's what would make it
possibly more efficient.
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