R. David Murray added the comment: It's actually almost a FAQ at this point. The answer is that because of the way the parser works (it's a relatively simple parser, and we want to keep it that way), the tokenizer sees the '.' as making the token a float, and '3.__class__' is not a valid float token. So you have to precede the period by something that allows the tokenizer to know it isn't a decimal point. Parens is one way. Believe it or not, a space is another:
>>> 3 .__class__ <class 'int'> ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> invalid stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20692> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
