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On 15 Feb 2014 06:48:37 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

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>myobj.alist[12]["some key"].attribute
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>I think it is fair to call that both an expression and a reference.

	It's a chain of references to me...

	The name	myobj	is a reference to some object that has a component
(attribute) named	alist	which is a reference to a list object. [12]
selects an element of the list, said element being an anonymous (unnamed,
unless you want to consider [12] to be the name) reference to an unnamed
dictionary object. "some key" selects an element of the dictionary which is
an anonymous reference to an object having an attribute named	attribute
which itself is a reference to some object -- for the purposes of this
chain, the final mentioned object is considered the value of the fully
qualified name.
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