Quoted identifiers in Python?

[Emile van Sebille]

Well, how would this work?

a = ."Ivory the engine"
ax = obi.a

What is ax?

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Eddie and Babs" <kca17 at dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:3ac38552$0$15025$cc9e4d1f at news.dial.pipex.com...
> Ahem... sorry, I missed the crucial word out there: "__dict__"!
> I meant that
>
>     x = obj."Ivor the engine"
>
> ...would be the same as:-
>
>     x = obj.__dict__["Ivor the engine"]
>
> The point I was really making was that since the object's attributes are
> stored in a dictionary, there is no reason why you shouldn't have any
string
> you like as the key (you can, after all, do that with any other
dictionary).
> The ability to use arbitrary strings as attribute names (as opposed to
just
> the usual alpha-num-underscore characters) DOES have its uses when you are
> allowed to re-define the attribute access "dot" operator.
>
>
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> In article <3AC35C84.FBED128 at alcyone.com>, Erik Max Francis
> <max at alcyone.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Eddie and Babs wrote:
> >
> >> NOW... would this be a good thing for Python to have in the future? It
> >> would
> >> make element access consistent with subscripting:-
> >>
> >>         x = obj."Ivor the engine"
> >>
> >>             ...would be the same as
> >>
> >>         x = obj["Ivor the engine"]
> >>
> >> ..no?
> >
> > I would hope they would not be the same, since one invokes __getattr__
> > while the other invokes __getitem__.  They're different things, they
> > shouldn't be forced to be the same thing.
> >
> > --
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