On 05/02/10 10:58, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> > And Python's object system >> > makes it that the argument to __getattr__ is always a string even though >> > there might be a valid variable that corresponds to it: > That is nothing to do with the object system, it is related to the > semantics of Python syntax. a.b doesn't mean "apply the binary dot > operator to arguments a and b". It is syntactic sugar for "look for an > attribute named 'b' on object a". As such, the operands that __getattr__ > receives are the object a and the *name* b (implemented as a string).
You just described *exactly* the reason why dot is not, and cannot be an operator. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
