Beej wrote: > On Jan 29, 11:47 pm, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Outside of a print statement (and also an "except" statement), commas >> create tuples. > > And function calls: > >>>> 3, > (3,) >>>> type(3,) > <type 'int'> >>>> type((3,)) > <type 'tuple'> > > But here's one I still don't get: > >>>> type(2) > <type 'int'> >>>> type((2)) > <type 'int'> >>>> (2).__add__(1) > 3 >>>> 2.__add__(1) > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 2.__add__(1) > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Because 2. is the start of a float-literal. That isn't distinguishable for the parsere otherwise. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
