Spaces in object attribute

[Cesar Douady]

In article <a1kaig$ra2ih$1 at ID-11957.news.dfncis.de>, "Emile van Sebille"
<emile at fenx.com> wrote:

>>>> obj . attr  # look! the period binds!
> 1
>>>> obj      .      attr
> 1
> 
> Do people really write programs that use this?  I'm not looking to
> change it, just understand why I got bit by it.  ;-)

Would you find it crasy to write :

someVariable      .myAttr = ...
someLongerVariable.myAttr = ...
(sorry if it does not appear aligned, I used a fixed font when writing
code)

I often do that when the 2 assignments are semantically related.

> 
> I did find http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/delimiters.html and
> thinking of a period as a delimiter completes my understanding of this. 
> I don't know why I previously assumed differently.  ;-)
> 
> Thanks to you and Martin for setting me straight.
> 
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> 
> Emile van Sebille
> emile at fenx.com
> 
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