On Fri, Dec 19, 2014, at 07:23, Ben Finney wrote: > Cem Karan <cfkar...@gmail.com> writes: > > I'd like to suggest that getattr(), setattr(), and hasattr() all be > > modified so that syntactically invalid statements raise SyntaxErrors. > > What syntactically invalid statements? The only syntactically invalid > statements I see you presenting are ones that *already* raise > SyntaxError. > > I think you mean that setting an attribute on an object should be a > SyntaxError if the resulting attribute's name is not a valid identifier. > But why should a valid statement produce SyntaxError? > > I'm −1 on such a change.
And some APIs - ctypes, for example - actually require using getattr with an invalid identifier in some cases (where attribute access is used for an underlying concept with names that are usually, but not always, valid identifiers: in ctypes' case, looking up symbols from DLLs.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
