On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:39:28 -0300, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >En Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:34:01 -0300, Beej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> But here's one I still don't get: >> >>>>> type(2) >> <type 'int'> >>>>> type((2)) >> <type 'int'> >>>>> (2).__add__(1) >> 3 >>>>> 2.__add__(1) >> File "<stdin>", line 1 >> 2.__add__(1) >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax > >It appears to be a bug, either in the grammar implementation, or in the >grammar documentation. >These are the relevant rules: > >attributeref ::= primary "." identifier > >primary ::= atom | attributeref | subscription | slicing | call > >atom ::= identifier | literal | enclosure > >literal ::= stringliteral | integer | longinteger | floatnumber | >imagnumber > >An integer is a primary so 2.__add(1) should be valid.
A float is, too. 2.__add is a float followed by an identifier. Not legal. As pointed out elsewhere in the thread, (2). forces it to be an integer followed by a ".". Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
