[docs] [issue20692] Tutorial section 9.4

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

It's actually almost a FAQ at this point.  The answer is that because of the way the parser works (it's a relatively simple parser, and we want to keep it that way), the tokenizer sees the '.' as making the token a float, and '3.__class__' is not a valid float token. So you have to precede the period by something that allows the tokenizer to know it isn't a decimal point.  Parens is one way.  Believe it or not, a space is another:

  >>> 3 .__class__
  <class 'int'>

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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution:  -> invalid
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed

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