On Sat, Aug 27, 2016, at 13:24, Grant Edwards wrote: > Becuase the parser thinks you've entered a floating point number with > a fractional part of "bit_length".
123.+456 doesn't think that the fractional part is "+456". (Of course, the real reason is "because it would be even more annoying to get random errors only with attributes that start with "e" or "j") -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
