Syntax Error

[Terry Reedy]

<kwasi007uk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Using e.g. poplib, m=poplib.POP3 ...
> I typed in error m.quit.
> It should have been m.quit().
> Why doesn't Python give me an error message?
> It definitely should since q.quit does not exist!

(You meant m.quit on last line?)

If m.quit() is legal (evaluating to the result of calling m.quit), then
m.quit is also
(evaluating to the function itself).  So there should be no error message