checking any object for attr "get" always returns True with hasattr

[mcmassok]

BPO	45529
Nosy	@ronaldoussoren, @ned-deily
Files	bug.py

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labels = ['OS-mac', 'type-bug', 'invalid', '3.9']
title = 'checking any object for attr "get" always returns True with `hasattr`'
updated_at = <Date 2021-10-19.21:32:03.402>
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[mcmassok]

Any time you use hasattr to check if a dict has the attr "get", it returns true.

Uploaded .py file has bug example.

[ned-deily]

That is expected behavior. "get" is a method of "dict".

>>> payload = {}
>>> dir(payload)
['__class__', '__class_getitem__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__ior__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__or__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__reversed__', '__ror__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', 'clear', 'copy', 'fromkeys', 'get', 'items', 'keys', 'pop', 'popitem', 'setdefault', 'update', 'values']
>>> hasattr(payload, "keys")
True

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict.get