On 12/3/13 12:14 PM, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
Hi!
I find global getattr() function awkward when reading code.
What is the reason there's no "natural" syntax allowing to access attributes
with names not being valid Python identifiers in a similar way to other attributes?
Something along the line of
my_object.'valid-attribute-name-but-not-valid-identifier'?
Regards,
Piotr Dobrogost
I don't know the real reason, but I imagine it would be that it would be
very rarely used. It would need to be an attribute that isn't a valid
identifier, and you know the attribute at the time you write the code.
I can see scenarios for needing attributes that aren't identifiers, but
in many of them you also need to access them through a variable rather
than literally.
--Ned.
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