New submission from Jon Shemitz:
The tutorial says "Each value is an object, and therefore has a class (also
called its type). It is stored as object.__class__."
So, I tried
>>> 3.__class__
File "<stdin>", line 1
3.__class__
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Yet, "foo".__class__ worked, as did 3j.__class__ and 3.5.__class__.
When my son (!) suggested that I try (3).__class__, I did indeed get <type
'int'>, while (3,).__class__ gave <type 'tuple'>.
This *looks like* a minor error in the parser, where seeing \d+\. puts it in a
state where it expects \d+ and it can't handle \w+
This may be the sort of thing that only a newbie would even think to try, so
may not be worth fixing. If so, it may be worth mentioning in the tutorial.
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation, Interpreter Core
messages: 211670
nosy: Jon.Shemitz, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tutorial section 9.4
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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