Jon Shemitz added the comment: That makes sense. Perhaps, then, the tutorial should include the FAQ? (I can't be the only person who thought to try this.)
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:59 PM, R. David Murray <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote: > > R. David Murray added the comment: > > It's actually almost a FAQ at this point. The answer is that because of > the way the parser works (it's a relatively simple parser, and we want to > keep it that way), the tokenizer sees the '.' as making the token a float, > and '3.__class__' is not a valid float token. So you have to precede the > period by something that allows the tokenizer to know it isn't a decimal > point. Parens is one way. Believe it or not, a space is another: > > >>> 3 .__class__ > <class 'int'> > > ---------- > nosy: +r.david.murray > resolution: -> invalid > stage: -> committed/rejected > status: open -> closed > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue20692> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20692> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
