Merge pull request #3102 from NotAFile/py3-attributeerror

Make event properties raise AttributeError instead

synapse/events/__init__.py

@@ -47,14 +47,26 @@ class _EventInternalMetadata(object):
 
 
 def _event_dict_property(key):
+    # We want to be able to use hasattr with the event dict properties.
+    # However, (on python3) hasattr expects AttributeError to be raised. Hence,
+    # we need to transform the KeyError into an AttributeError
     def getter(self):
+        try:
             return self._event_dict[key]
+        except KeyError:
+            raise AttributeError(key)
 
     def setter(self, v):
+        try:
             self._event_dict[key] = v
+        except KeyError:
+            raise AttributeError(key)
 
     def delete(self):
+        try:
             del self._event_dict[key]
+        except KeyError:
+            raise AttributeError(key)
 
     return property(
         getter,