Spaces in object attribute

[Emile van Sebille]

Shouldn't this cause an SyntaxError?

>>> sys.version
'2.2 (#28, Dec 21 2001, 12:21:22) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)]'

>>> class Test:pass

>>> obj=Test()
>>> obj. attr = 1 # note the space
>>>

In particular, I ran across this while printing out debugging info when I
typoed in a period for a comma.  I was surprised to get an attribute error
at run time instead of a syntax error at compile time.

Is there a reason to allow spaces like this?

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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