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bpo-44024: Improve the TypeError message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functions getattr and hasattr#25863

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Problem

Actual behaviour:

>>> getattr('foobar', 123)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: getattr(): attribute name must be string
>>> hasattr('foobar', 123)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: hasattr(): attribute name must be string

Expected behaviour:

>>> getattr('foobar', 123)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: attribute name must be string, not 'int'
>>> hasattr('foobar', 123)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: attribute name must be string, not 'int'

Motivation:

>>> setattr('foobar', 123, 'baz')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: attribute name must be string, not 'int'
>>> delattr('foobar', 123)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: attribute name must be string, not 'int'

Solution

In the function builtin_getattr defined in Python/bltinmodule.c, we remove the following lines:

    if (!PyUnicode_Check(name)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
                        "getattr(): attribute name must be string");
        return NULL;
    }

because the expected TypeError message is already implemented in the subsequent call to the functions _PyObject_LookupAttr and PyObject_GetAttr defined in Objects/object.c:

PyObject *
PyObject_GetAttr(PyObject *v, PyObject *name)
{
    PyTypeObject *tp = Py_TYPE(v);
    if (!PyUnicode_Check(name)) {
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
                     "attribute name must be string, not '%.200s'",
                     Py_TYPE(name)->tp_name);
        return NULL;
    }

[…]

int
_PyObject_LookupAttr(PyObject *v, PyObject *name, PyObject **result)
{
    PyTypeObject *tp = Py_TYPE(v);

    if (!PyUnicode_Check(name)) {
        PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
                     "attribute name must be string, not '%.200s'",
                     Py_TYPE(name)->tp_name);
        *result = NULL;
        return -1;
    }

[…]

Likewise, in the function builtin_hasattr_impl defined in Python/bltinmodule.c, we remove the following lines:

    if (!PyUnicode_Check(name)) {
        PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
                        "hasattr(): attribute name must be string");
        return NULL;
    }

because the expected TypeError message is already implemented in the subsequent call to the function _PyObject_LookupAttr defined in Objects/object.c.

https://bugs.python.org/issue44024

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Could you add a test for the error message and a news entry for the change?

@geryogam geryogam changed the title bpo-44024: Use common TypeError message for built-in functions getattr and hasattr bpo-44024: Use the common TypeError message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functions getattr and hasattr May 4, 2021
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Update Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-04-21-55-49.bpo-440…
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…24.M9m8Qd.rst

Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
@geryogam geryogam changed the title bpo-44024: Use the common TypeError message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functions getattr and hasattr bpo-44024: Improve the error message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functions getattr and hasattr May 4, 2021
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geryogam commented May 4, 2021

Thanks for the review @JelleZijlstra!

@geryogam geryogam changed the title bpo-44024: Improve the error message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functions getattr and hasattr bpo-44024: Improve the TypeError message for non-string second arguments passed to the built-in functions getattr and hasattr May 4, 2021
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merwok commented Jan 5, 2022

Looks good, thanks! Could you pull and merge upstream in your branch?

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The change LGTM, but tests are added in wrong place.

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LGTM.

@serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka merged commit 16bf9bd into python:main Jan 18, 2022
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