Cem Karan <cfkar...@gmail.com> writes: > However, the following doesn't work: > > >>> foo.3 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > foo.3 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >>> bar.3 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > bar.3 > ^ > SyntaxError: invalid syntax > > I'd like to suggest that getattr(), setattr(), and hasattr() all be > modified so that syntactically invalid statements raise SyntaxErrors.
What syntactically invalid statements? The only syntactically invalid statements I see you presenting are ones that *already* raise SyntaxError. I think you mean that setting an attribute on an object should be a SyntaxError if the resulting attribute's name is not a valid identifier. But why should a valid statement produce SyntaxError? I'm −1 on such a change. -- \ “Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't | `\ know.” —Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, 1914–2004 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list