Currently, to test whether a sacc.Sacc object contains a tracer of a given name, it seems one must either:
use the method get_tracer and catch the resulting KeyError if there is no such tracer, or
directly access the tracers instance variable.
The existence of the get_tracer method, which does the key lookup for the caller, seems to be an indication that client code making direct access to the instance variables is not preferred.
Can we then have a has_tracer method to make the query simpler for client code, without having the client code access the instance variable tracers directly?
Currently, to test whether a
sacc.Saccobject contains a tracer of a given name, it seems one must either:get_tracerand catch the resultingKeyErrorif there is no such tracer, ortracersinstance variable.The existence of the
get_tracermethod, which does the key lookup for the caller, seems to be an indication that client code making direct access to the instance variables is not preferred.Can we then have a
has_tracermethod to make the query simpler for client code, without having the client code access the instance variabletracersdirectly?I will create a pull request for this feature.