On 06/19/2013 03:14 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
Names are *one of* the ways we specify which objects are to be used. (We can
also specify objects via an container and a subscript or slice, or via an
attribute of another object. And probably another way or two.)
But you always have to bootstrap it with either a name.
Whatever bootstrap really means in this context. But if you have
myname[3] + myname[5], the two objects being added are identified by a
subscript operation, not just a name.
Or a literal.
A literal is used to create an object, and acts like a temporary name
for that object, but once again the object being operated on isn't
necessarily that one. You can subscript and get attributes from a
literal as well.
So those are the only two ways to specify which objects are to be
used.
That would be a pretty weak language, and it wouldn't be python.
Now if you considered "." and "[" as operators, then I could understand
your point. But
http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#operators
seems to say differently.
Also see
http://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#primaries
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