Spaces in object attribute

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Jan 15 06:28:32 EST 2002


"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> writes:

> Shouldn't this cause an SyntaxError?
[...]
> >>> obj. attr = 1 # note the space

No, as others explained.  Here's another good one:

>>> class C:
...  def __getitem__(self, item):
...   return item
... 
>>> C()[.                 .                     .]
Ellipsis

Cheers,
M.

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