Quoted identifiers in Python?

[Erik Max Francis]

Eddie and Babs wrote:

> NOW... would this be a good thing for Python to have in the future? It
> would
> make element access consistent with subscripting:-
> 
>         x = obj."Ivor the engine"
> 
>             ...would be the same as
> 
>         x = obj["Ivor the engine"]
> 
> ..no?

I would hope they would not be the same, since one invokes __getattr__
while the other invokes __getitem__.  They're different things, they
shouldn't be forced to be the same thing.

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