In article <20090130173948.12853.732928641.divmod.quotient....@henry.divmod.com>, Jean-Paul Calderone <exar...@divmod.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:36:45 -0600, Alaric Haag <h...@lsu.edu> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I just noticed that I've been successfully importing a module I wrote > >which contains a class definition that begins with (docstring removed): > > > >class TDF(): > > def __init__(self, name='', mode=tscan. GP_NOCLOBBER): > > > >Note the "space" which shouldn't be here---^ > > The space is irrelevant. > > >>> object. __init__ > <slot wrapper '__init__' of 'object' objects> > >>> object.__init__ is object. __init__ > True > >>> > > Jean-Paul > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list It strikes me as strange that Python (which I love btw) would be so loose in its syntax when "spaces matter" at the beginning of a line. I now see that a space could precede the period too, as in: x = foo . method() So, is the "secret" that the period is syntactically an "operator" like + or * ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
