[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Dict access with double-dot (syntactic sugar)

[Masklinn]

On 2011-03-24, at 22:03 , Santoso Wijaya wrote:

> I just want to chip in that, as far as syntactic sugar go, `somedict:foo`
> looks better than `somedict..foo`.
> 
> 2c...
> 
> ~/santa
On the other hand, the colon is generally used for definitions (in Python, with the defined on the left side and the definition on the right one) not for accesses.