Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers?

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On 12/04/2013 03:57 PM, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
> On Thursday, December 5, 2013 12:09:52 AM UTC+1, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps you should look at different ways of spelling your identifiers?
>>  Why can't you use an underscore instead of a hyphen?
>
> So that underscore could be left for use inside fields' names?
> However I think we could use some unique Unicode character for this
>  instead hyphen as long as Python allows any alphanumeric Unicode
>  character inside identifiers which I think it does...

Yes, although I don't remember at which version that became true...

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~Ethan~

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