On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> wrote: > As an aside, I wonder why people use dot+colon notation instead of just > dots to reference callables. In distutils2 for example we resolve > dotted names to find command classes, command hooks and compilers. So > what’s the benefit, marginally easier parsing?
An opportunity of using a colon is that it allows:: dotted.module.name:expression where expression may be more than just a name:: foo.bar:Bar() Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
