default behavior

[Peter Otten]

David Niergarth wrote:

> [Oops, now complete...]
> Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
>>
>> > >>> 1 .conjugate()
>>
> This is a syntax I never noticed before. My built-in complier (eyes)
> took one look and said: "that doesn't work." 

(1).conjugate may hurt a little less. Anyway, the space is only needed for 
the tokenizer that without it would produce a float immediately followed by 
a name.

> Has this always worked in
> Python but I never noticed? 

Probably.

> I see other instance examples also work.
> 
> >>> '1' .zfill(2)
> '01'
> >>> 1.0 .is_integer()
> True
> 
> and properties
> 
> >>> 1.0 .real
> 1.0
> 
> Curiously, a float literal works without space
> 
>   >>> 1.0.conjugate()
>   1.0
> 
> but not an int.
> 
>   >>> 1.conjugate()
>     File "<stdin>", line 1
>       1.conjugate()
>                 ^
>   SyntaxError: invalid syntax
> 
> Anyway, I didn't realize int has a method you can call.
> 
> --David