Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com>: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> I wonder if that should be built into dict. > > Short answer, no. I'm sure it's been proposed before. Attributes ≠ > keys. When you see something.somethingelse anywhere else in Python, > "somethingelse" is an attribute reference. When you see > something[somethingelse], "somethingelse" is an index value or key. > Why destroy that symmetry in dictionaries?
I'm not sure I fully appreciate the dichotomy (which you euphemistically refer to as symmetry). > JavaScript objects have that feature. I find it mildly confusing > because whenever I see it I have to pause to consider whether the name > I am looking at is an attribute or a key. What's the inherent difference between an attribute and a key. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
