From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:01:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: minor cleanup of example
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1023
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea49de34c9e55f7356c71765f3674d140f348ff6;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

minor cleanup of example
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libuser.tex b/Doc/lib/libuser.tex
index 0d0ecb680913..4e915a22c88c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libuser.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libuser.tex
@@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ level can look for a variable \code{user.spam_verbose}, as follows:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
 import user
-try:
-    verbose = user.spam_verbose  # user's verbosity preference
-except AttributeError:
-    verbose = 0                  # default verbosity
+
+verbose = bool(getattr(user, "spam_verbose", 0))
 \end{verbatim}
 
+(The three-argument form of \function{getattr()} is used in case
+the user has not defined \code{spam_verbose} in their
+\file{.pythonrc.py} file.)
+
 Programs with extensive customization needs are better off reading a
 program-specific customization file.