Note about getattr and '.'

[Carl Banks]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:39:09 +0100, Mathias Panzenboeck wrote:
> > Yes, this is known. I think IronPython uses a specialized dictionary for members, which prohibits
> > malformed names. I don't know if there will be such a dictionary in any future CPython version.
> > (Would be good.)
>
> Why would it be good?
>
> How many bugs have you found that were caused by this behaviour?

It's not bugs.  A specialized dictionary could be better optimized if
you know it can only hold Python identifiers.  There's talk of such a
dictionary in Python 3000.


Carl Banks