Bug? Feature? setattr(foo, '3', 4) works!

[Ben Finney]

Cem Karan <cfkaran2 at gmail.com> writes:

> However, the following doesn't work:
>
> >>> foo.3
>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>    foo.3
>        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> >>> bar.3
>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>    bar.3
>        ^
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I'd like to suggest that getattr(), setattr(), and hasattr() all be
> modified so that syntactically invalid statements raise SyntaxErrors.

What syntactically invalid statements? The only syntactically invalid
statements I see you presenting are ones that *already* raise
SyntaxError.

I think you mean that setting an attribute on an object should be a
SyntaxError if the resulting attribute's name is not a valid identifier.
But why should a valid statement produce SyntaxError?

I'm −1 on such a change.

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Ben Finney