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| From | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? |
| Date | 2013-12-03 12:38 -0500 |
| References | <15912943-29a1-4365-b027-7bb8cec447f8@googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3523.1386092315.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 12/3/13 12:14 PM, Piotr Dobrogost wrote: > Hi! > > I find global getattr() function awkward when reading code. > What is the reason there's no "natural" syntax allowing to access attributes with names not being valid Python identifiers in a similar way to other attributes? > Something along the line of my_object.'valid-attribute-name-but-not-valid-identifier'? > > > Regards, > Piotr Dobrogost > I don't know the real reason, but I imagine it would be that it would be very rarely used. It would need to be an attribute that isn't a valid identifier, and you know the attribute at the time you write the code. I can see scenarios for needing attributes that aren't identifiers, but in many of them you also need to access them through a variable rather than literally. --Ned.
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Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-03 09:14 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-03 12:38 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names
not being valid identifiers? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-03 12:48 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 14:05 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with
names not being valid identifiers? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-04 17:28 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-03 09:31 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-03 15:49 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? random832@fastmail.us - 2013-12-03 13:03 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-03 15:47 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-03 19:06 -0600
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 12:35 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-04 20:46 +0000
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 15:58 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 13:02 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-12-04 21:41 +0000
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 13:54 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-12-06 14:07 +0000
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-06 08:51 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-12-07 00:47 +0000
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 14:13 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 15:09 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 15:57 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 16:26 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-04 20:17 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-04 21:58 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 19:05 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-05 07:56 +0000
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> - 2013-12-03 21:45 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-03 22:31 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 01:57 -0700
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 02:09 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-12-04 11:29 +0100
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 04:01 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-12-04 13:32 +0100
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 05:02 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-12-04 20:57 +0100
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 21:33 +1100
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 03:27 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-12-04 05:25 -0600
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-12-04 13:30 +0200
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 22:40 +1100
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 07:56 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 19:43 -0700
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-12-04 20:48 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-12-04 19:27 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-04 20:03 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 01:12 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-04 08:23 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 13:00 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 12:07 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 12:22 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-04 20:55 +0000
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-12-04 13:00 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-04 17:11 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Piotr Dobrogost <p@google-groups-2013.dobrogost.net> - 2013-12-04 15:42 -0800
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-12-04 22:21 -0500
Re: Why is there no natural syntax for accessing attributes with names not being valid identifiers? Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-12-05 01:50 +0000
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