Python language suggestion

[Chris Ryland]

In article <3A5E9E45.9A59848F at alcyone.com>,
  Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
> Andrew Dalke wrote:
> > I believe he means
> >   foo.'bar bletch'
> > as an alternate way of doing
> >   getattr(foo, 'bar bletch')
> > not as foo['bar bletch']
>
> That's not what he said.  He explicitly used the subscription notation
> and even said "dictionary-like objects."

No, Andrew's right--I meant the more general getattr(foo, 'bar bletch').

It's a very simple, unambiguous, gentle way to extend the language to
allow slightly out-of-spec attribute names (such as keywords and
multiple words with blanks).

I'll stop now and let the experts debate. ;-)
--
Chris Ryland * Em Software, Inc. * www.emsoftware.com


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