[Python-ideas] Bug? Feature? setattr(foo, '3', 4) works!

[Nick Coghlan]

On 19 December 2014 at 20:57, Cem Karan <cfkaran2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> But, getting back to the main question, is this a bug or a feature?  I
> personally feel like this is a bug, and I'd like to both clarify it in the
> language spec, and have cpython modified to enforce the syntax, regardless
> of how you try to mess with an attribute.  How does everyone else feel
> about this?
>

Namespaces are just dictionaries. The one thing implementations may do is
to place a type restriction on the keys, so they throw TypeError if you try
to use something other than str (although *CPython* doesn't do that).

getattr/setattr/delattr would never throw SyntaxError though - that's only
thrown by the compiler.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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