[Python-Dev] function call syntax oddity (original) (raw)

Joseph Armbruster josepharmbruster at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 22:25:57 CET 2008


All,

I was showing a co-worker some python today (using the trunk) when I stumbled upon this. I was not sure what to think since I have never really experimented with using spaces like this. So here tis. Be careful to notice the spaces as they are significant here.

1.3.str() '1.3'

1.3 .str() '1.3'

a = " somestring "

a .split() ['somestring']

a. split() ['somestring']

Cool I suppose, except here's an odd man out:

1.str() File "", line 1 1.str() ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

1 .str() '1'

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