On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:06:44 AM UTC+1, Tim Chase wrote: > > I think random832 is saying that the designed purpose of setattr() > was to dynamically set attributes by name, so they could later be > accessed the traditional way; not designed from the ground-up to > support non-identifier names. But because of the getattr/setattr > machinery (dict key/value pairs), it doesn't prevent you from having > non-identifiers as names as long as you use only the getattr/setattr > method of accessing them.
Right. If there's already a way to have attributes with these "non-standard" names (which is a good thing) then for uniformity with dot access to attributes with "standard" names there should be a variant of dot access allowing to access these "non-standard" named attributes, too. Regards, Piotr -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
