def myhasattr(obj, name, _marker=object()):
    """Make sure we don't mask exceptions like hasattr().

    We don't want exceptions other than AttributeError to be masked,
    since that too often masks other programming errors.
    Three-argument getattr() doesn't mask those, so we use that to
    implement our own hasattr() replacement.
    """
    return getattr(obj, name, _marker) is not _marker