On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 2:23:24 PM UTC+1, Roy Smith wrote: > In article <17gt99hg615jfm7bdid26185884d2pf...@4ax.com>, > > Tim Roberts <> wrote: > > > Piotr Dobrogost <> wrote: > > > >Attribute access syntax being very concise is very often preferred > > >to dict's interface. > > > It is not "very concise". It is slightly more concise. > > > x = obj.value1 > > x = dct['value1'] > > > You have saved 3 keystrokes. That is not a significant enough savings to > > create new syntax. Remember the Python philosophy that there ought to be > > one way to do it. > > I'll trade typing [ ' ' ] for . any day. Easier to type, easier to > read. It's not just the character count, it's that you need to move > your fingers off the home row (or, at the very least, a big stretch with > your pinkie) to reach the brackets. I suppose that depends on your > particular keyboard layout and typing style/skill.
Very true. Just a remark it's actually trading getattr(o,'x') for o.'x' (saving of 11 keystrokes - don't forget shifts :)) as attribute is quite a different beast then key in a dictionary so comparing this to dict's interface is comparing apples to oranges. Regards, Piotr -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
