Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment: This is a bug report in that there is a discrepancy between the grammar in the doc and the behavior. Laxiness can lead to portability problems if CPython is lax compared to a normal reading of the spec and another implementation takes the spec seriously.
I agree that implementation details that lead to an exception here and not there, or vice versa, are best avoided. For getattr: ''' getattr(object, name[, default]) Return the value of the named attributed of object. name must be a string. ''' the doc is careful to just say that name must be a string, not specifically an identifier. Given that, I suppose "attribute_name ::= identifier" should be changed to match so that string formats can always (all implementations) also access non-identifier attributes. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
