[Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 14 02:07:48 CET 2007
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> OTOH, you can't write
>
> x + = 2
>
> or
>
> a = 2 * * 4
Although oddly enough you *can* write
a[. . .]
I guess whoever added the ellipsis couldn't be bothered
defining a new token for it.
It's something of an arbitrary choice, but to me it just
seems that the dot and bracket *should* be separare
tokens, perhaps because I would be thinking of the
[x] as a special kind of argument to the dot operator,
rather than there being a funny new operator called ".[".
--
Greg
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