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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/sqlalchemy/attributes.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/sqlalchemy/attributes.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/sqlalchemy/attributes.py b/lib/sqlalchemy/attributes.py index f87f4de9d..29a79edd2 100644 --- a/lib/sqlalchemy/attributes.py +++ b/lib/sqlalchemy/attributes.py @@ -267,12 +267,14 @@ class AttributeManager(object): return CallableProp(self, func, obj, key, uselist, **kwargs) def get_attribute(self, obj, key, **kwargs): - """returns the value of an object's scalar attribiute.""" + """returns the value of an object's scalar attribute, or None if + its not defined on the object (since we are a property accessor, this + is considered more appropriate than raising AttributeError).""" h = self.get_history(obj, key, **kwargs) try: return h.getattr() except KeyError: - raise AttributeError(key) + return None def get_list_attribute(self, obj, key, **kwargs): """returns the value of an object's list-based attribute.""" |