Quicker way than “try” and “except” ? - Python

Question

I\'m often having code written as follows

try:
  self.title = item.title().content.string
except AttributeError, e:
  self.title = None

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Answer 1

In one line, although I’d only recommend this in 5% of all use cases.

self.title = item.title().content.string if hasattr(item, 'title') else None