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Subject: Re: PEP8 79 char max
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 19:22:07 -0400
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On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 05:24:42 -0700 (PDT), Metallicow
<metaliobovinus@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

>
>RailRoadTieWidth = 79.1234567890
>
>>>> 79 = 'Width Of A Horse"s Ass'
>  File "<input>", line 1
>SyntaxError: can't assign to literal
>
>>>>RailRoadTieWidth.attribute
>("American", "Steam")
>
>>>>79.attribute = ("Roman", "Chariot")
>  File "<input>", line 1
>    79.attribute = ("Roman", "Chariot")
>               ^
>SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
	You missed one...

>>> 79 .attribute=("Roman", "Chariot")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'attribute'
>>> 

	79.attribute	starts off looking like a floating point value, and
chokes on the non-decimal digit "a"...

	79 .attribute	starts off as an integer and an attribute access.
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