On 2013-12-04, Piotr Dobrogost <p...@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:41:49 PM UTC+1, Neil Cerutti > wrote: >> not something to do commonly. Your proposed syntax leaves the >> distinction between valid and invalid identifiers a problem >> the programmer has to deal with. It doesn't unify access to >> attributes the way the getattr and setattr do. > > Taking into account that obj.'x' would be equivalent to obj.x > any attribute can be accessed with the new syntax. I don't see > how this is not unified access compared to using getattr > instead dot...
I thought of that argument later the next day. Your proposal does unify access if the old obj.x syntax is removed. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
