Odd syntactic NON-error?

[Alaric Haag]

Hello,

I just noticed that I've been successfully importing a module I wrote 
which contains a class definition that begins with (docstring removed):

class TDF():
    def __init__(self, name='', mode=tscan. GP_NOCLOBBER):

Note the "space" which shouldn't be here---^

I'm running Python 2.5.2. 

What does the interpreter "think" I'm doing? It's not flagged by pylint 
either, so I suspect there's a reasonable explanation.

Alaric