[Python-ideas] Object grabbing

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:37 AM, Erik <python at lucidity.plus.com> wrote:
> On 02/05/16 22:34, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:41 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2016-05-02 14:57, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>>> Anyway, the exception (or warning?) could be raised at compile-time if
>>> the
>>> leading-dot form was used in a 'with' that had more than one expression.
>>>
>>
>> Exactly. A SyntaxError perhaps?
>
>
> Now you're suggesting a SyntaxError for valid syntax ;)
>

No. It seems to me the signal-to-noise ratio of this thread is getting
worse. Déjà vu (or French for 'already seen', if unicode fails you).

What I'm suggesting (in addition to the actual suggestion) is not to
allow plain .attr attribute access inside a with statement "with
multiple expressions". Kind of the same way as, for instance, break
and continue are not allowed outside loops: "SyntaxError: 'continue'
not properly in loop". Or the same way as plain .attr syntax is
currently not allowed at all: "SyntaxError: invalid syntax".

-- Koos