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

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On 12/04/2013 06:58 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 12/4/2013 3:46 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 04/12/2013 20:35, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>>>
>>> there should be a variant of dot access allowing to access
>>> these "non-standard" named attributes, too.
>
> More opinion. I am sure that I am not the only developer who disagrees.

+1


>> The obvious thing to do is to either raise this on python ideas, or if
>> you're that confident about it raise an issue on the bug tracker with a
>> patch, which would include changes to unit tests and documentation as
>> well as code, get it reviewed and approved and Bob's your uncle, job
>> done.
>
> I think the latter would be foolish. Syntax changes have a high bar for acceptance. They should do more than save a few
> keystrokes.

+1

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