Python language suggestion

[Martijn Faassen]

Moshe Zadka <moshez at zadka.site.co.il> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:27:39 GMT, Chris Ryland <cpr at emsoftware.com> wrote:
>> This migh sound radical, but has anyone ever entertained the idea that
>> foo.'bar bletch' might be a useful and logical extension of Python's
>> current attribute selection machinery?
>> 
>> I realize that foo['bar bletch'] is just as good for dictionary-like
>> objects, but foo.'bar bletch' 

> getattr(foo, 'bar bletch') works in Python.

Sure, but this could be syntactic sugar. Along the lines Python 2.0 now
has apply() but also the foo(a, *bar, **baz) invocation syntax.

Not that I'm actually advocating this. I'm just toying with the idea.

Regards,

Martijn
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