Why not 3.__class__ ?

[Erik Max Francis]

Emile van Sebille wrote:

[Fixing top posting]
> "Paul Rubin" <phr-n2001d at nightsong.com> wrote:
>
> > How about (3).foo?
>
> Because tuples have methods now.
> 
> Python 2.2a4+ (#56, Oct  4 2001, 12:59:29)
> [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> dir(())
> ['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__eq__', '__ge__',
> '__getattribute__', '__getitem__', '__getslice__', '__gt
> __', '__hash__', '__init__', '__le__', '__len__', '__lt__', '__mul__',
> '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__repr__', '__rmul__', '_
> _setattr__', '__str__']

Irrelevant, since (3) isn't a tuple, it's an expression which evaluates
to 3.  You were thinking of (3,), but that's not what the original
poster wrote.

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