[Python-Dev] Re: ANNOUNCE: 'goto' for Python

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Apr 1 21:31:06 EST 2004


Mike Rovner <mike at nospam.com>:

> Shall I file a bug about python lexer which allows space between class and
> attribute? Or that's a fiature?

It's certainly not a bug. An identifier and a dot following it
are separate lexical tokens, so whitespace should be allowed
between them in the interests of consistency, even if it's not
all that useful.

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