From 178611faa83871180f3ee52c4362a15c1c2d2e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ArturTomczak <artomczak@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 13:49:25 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Finalizing Gsoc#45 ids checking (#1694)

---
 src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/ids.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/ids.py b/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/ids.py
index 769016b600..b3ac926a79 100644
--- a/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/ids.py
+++ b/src/ifcopenshell-python/ifcopenshell/ids.py
@@ -502,8 +502,10 @@ class entity(facet):
         :rtype: dict
         """
         fac_dict = {"name": parameter_asdict(self.name)}
-        if "predefinedtype" in self:
+        try:
             fac_dict["predefinedtype"] = parameter_asdict(self.predefinedtype)
+        except (RecursionError, UnboundLocalError) as e:
+            print(e)
         return fac_dict
 
     def __call__(self, inst, logger):