Why not 3.__class__ ?

[Paul Rubin]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:
> Marcin, I don't understand why you care so much about being able to
> write 3.foo.  It's painful to fix in the lexer, and probably leads to
> less useful error messages if someone makes a mistake in a float
> literal (e.g. "3.e 0").  And I see zero use for it: in practice, you
> will never ask for 3.foo -- you'll ask for x.foo where x happens to
> contain the value 3.

How about (3).foo?