Nick Coghlan added the comment: This actually came up on the core-mentorship list (someone was trying to translate old mod-formatting code that used a colon in the lookup names and discovered this odd behaviour)
My own preference is to let this quote from PEP 3101 dominate the behaviour: "The rules for parsing an item key are very simple. If it starts with a digit, then it is treated as a number, otherwise it is used as a string." That means Petri's suggested solution (allowing any character except a closing square bracket and braces in the item key) sounds good to me. ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12014> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
