__class__ for 2.2 types

[Steve Holden]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote...
> "Jim Dennis"
> >  That's an interesting "gotchya"  I understand why 2.__class__ is a
> >  syntax error (ambiguous with a float: 2.0 etc).  But I'm surprised
> >  that 2 . __class__ works; the spaces seem unnatural here.
> >
>
> I was surprised by this recently as well.  It turns out the '.' is
> simply a delimiter, and whitespace is allowed either side of a
> delimiter.
>
> >>> sys . path . pop ( )
> 'F:\\Python22\\lib\\site-packages'
> >>>
Well, syntactically the period acts as a delimiter when there are no spaces,
but here the spaces themselves are the delimiters. Technically isn't the
period acting as an operator here, the operation being "find in namespace"
or some such?

regards
 Steve
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