On 06/12/2013 16:51, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
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I thought of that argument later the next day. Your proposal does
unify access if the old obj.x syntax is removed.
As long as obj.x is a very concise way to get attribute named 'x' from
object obj it's somehow odd that identifier x is treated not like
identifier but like string literal 'x'. If it were treated like an
identifier then we would get attribute with name being value of x
instead attribute named 'x'. Making it possible to use string literals
in the form obj.'x' as proposed this would make getattr basically
needless as long as we use only variable not expression to denote
attribute's name.
But then every time you wanted to get an attribute with a name known at
compile time you'd need to write obj.'x' instead of obj.x, thereby
requiring two additional keystrokes. Given that the large majority of
attribute access Python code uses dot syntax rather than getattr, this
seems like it would massively outweigh the eleven keystrokes one saves
by writing obj.'x' instead of getattr(obj,'x').
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