[Python-Dev] New syntax for 'dynamic' attribute access

[Ron Adam]

Barry Warsaw wrote:
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> On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>> Oh, now I am definitely in favor of .[]! I read it in gmail in FireFox
>> which uses a small variable-pitch font whose dot is a single pixel.
>> The .() example was hard to find; the .[] jumped out immediately.
>> (When do you ever see self[anything]?)
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> Raymond's -> suggestion was nice.

I think it's gets a bit awkward in some situations.


    if bar->'__%s__' % attr < -42: print 'Hello World'

    if bar.['__%s__' % attr] > -42: print 'Hello World'


To me it's easier to parse the second one visually.


Ron