Python language suggestion

[Erik Max Francis]

Chris Ryland 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' would be very much more attractive in
> one
> application I'm considering (which must use AppleScript-style
> attributes, which can include spaces),and it seemed like a general
> improvement to allow an arbitrary (constant) string after an
> attribute "oeprator" (.).

This does not sound like a good idea.  Indexes of an object which
supports __getitem__ are totally independent of the attributes which
that object may have; comingling them with a similar syntax doesn't seem
like it would gain anything except confusion.

I mean, really -- is it that much easier to write object.key instead of
object[key]?

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