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

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From	Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Subject	Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers?
Date	Fri, 6 Dec 2013 14:07:51 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-12-04, Piotr Dobrogost
<p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 10:41:49 PM UTC+1, Neil Cerutti
> wrote:
>> not something to do commonly. Your proposed syntax leaves the
>> distinction between valid and invalid identifiers a problem
>> the programmer has to deal with. It doesn't unify access to
>> attributes the way the getattr and setattr do.
>
> Taking into account that obj.'x' would be equivalent to obj.x
> any attribute can be accessed with the new syntax. I don't see
> how this is not unified access compared to using getattr
> instead dot...

I thought of that argument later the next day. Your proposal does
unify access if the old obj.x syntax is removed.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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