Message118232
This is a bug report in that there is a discrepancy between the grammar in the doc and the behavior. Laxiness can lead to portability problems if CPython is lax compared to a normal reading of the spec and another implementation takes the spec seriously.
I agree that implementation details that lead to an exception here and not there, or vice versa, are best avoided.
For getattr:
'''
getattr(object, name[, default])
Return the value of the named attributed of object. name must be a string.
'''
the doc is careful to just say that name must be a string, not specifically an identifier. Given that, I suppose
"attribute_name ::= identifier" should be changed to match so that string formats can always (all implementations) also access non-identifier attributes. |
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2010-10-08 22:55:20 | terry.reedy | set | recipients:
+ terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, eric.smith, benjamin.peterson, eric.araujo, docs@python |
2010-10-08 22:55:20 | terry.reedy | set | messageid: <1286578520.62.0.554078688413.issue10021@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2010-10-08 22:55:18 | terry.reedy | link | issue10021 messages |
2010-10-08 22:55:18 | terry.reedy | create | |
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