Hey, yeah, you're right, that would be even better. Currently it would also give a 3 for bar in "foo. bar.baz". I'd be fine with both solutions, but yours seems more logical.
Bye, Sven 2010/12/27 Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com>: > On 12/26/2010 1:41 PM, Sven Brauch wrote: > > Hi there, > > I recently filed a feature request in the tracker to change the > behaviour of the parser in terms of setting ranges on attribute AST > nodes, because I'm working on an application which needs more > information than is currently provided. I suggested to change the > behaviour from > foo.bar.baz # <- foo is said to start at column 0, bar at 0 and baz at > 0 (current) > to > foo.bar.baz # <- foo starts at 0, bar at 3 and baz at 7 (suggestion) > > In that discussion, there's been different opinions about which > behaviour is better; main arguments were "consistency" for the current > and "usefulness" for the suggested behaviour. It has been proposed to > ask the question on this list, that's why I'm doing that now. :) > The thread can be found here: http://bugs.python.org/issue10769 > > So, which version do you think to be better: the current one or the > suggested one? > > The current one is better, but maybe bar at 4 and baz at 8 would be even > better. > > In other words, I don't think pointing at the "." is useful? Was that your > intention? > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/svenbrauch%40googlemail.com > > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
