On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> wrote: > 2010/12/26 Sven Brauch <svenbra...@googlemail.com>: >> 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. :) > > My argument against this change is that an attribute includes the > expression from which the attribute is being taken. This is consistent > with subscripts and calls, which both have the lineno and col_offset > of their source expressions.
I'd like to see the impact on existing uses of this information (primarily SyntaxErrors) before forming a firm opinion, but my initial inclination is that retaining the column information for the subattribute names is a better option. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
