On 07/03/2016 16:25, Xiang Zhang wrote: > Hi, > > I know I can get the attribute name in some way, but since I just > want the attribute name when an AttributeError caused by it raised, I > really don't want to inspect the string or introduce one more layer > over getattr. I hope I can get the attribute which causes the > exception from the AttributeError raised directly. But it seems I > can't. >
As things stand, you can't. But if you were to chime in on this issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue18156 then you might bring discussion there back to life again and see some forward movement. There seemed to be a consensus (and involving some active developers) so it's possible that new interest might revive interest. TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list