David Niergarth wrote: > [Oops, now complete...] > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> >> > >>> 1 .conjugate() >> > This is a syntax I never noticed before. My built-in complier (eyes) > took one look and said: "that doesn't work."
(1).conjugate may hurt a little less. Anyway, the space is only needed for the tokenizer that without it would produce a float immediately followed by a name. > Has this always worked in > Python but I never noticed? Probably. > I see other instance examples also work. > > >>> '1' .zfill(2) > '01' > >>> 1.0 .is_integer() > True > > and properties > > >>> 1.0 .real > 1.0 > > Curiously, a float literal works without space > > >>> 1.0.conjugate() > 1.0 > > but not an int. > > >>> 1.conjugate() > File "<stdin>", line 1 > 1.conjugate() > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > Anyway, I didn't realize int has a method you can call. > > --David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
