Expression problem.

[Peter Otten]

Sebastiaan de Haan wrote:

> Thank you Chris,
> 
> I'll try and find the attribute in the code. That was my conclusion
> aswell... The original author must have defined it somewhere...

Don't forget to check whether the object's class (or any of its bases) has a 
__getattr__() or __getattribute__() method.

>>> class A(object):
...     def __getattr__(self, name):
...             return 42
...
>>> a = A()
>>> a.as
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    a.as
       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Note tha you can still access such an attribute using getattr()

>>> getattr(a, "as")
42

Peter