gh-96397: Document that attributes need not be identifiers #96454
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Clarify that the name of an attribute need not be a valid Python identifier, in particular through setarr(), noting that this precludes use of the dot notation to access them.
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merwok approved these changes Sep 22, 2022
| Could this be merged, or have I more to do? |
gvanrossum approved these changes Sep 29, 2022
Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
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| Thanks @jeff5 for the PR, and @gvanrossum for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.10. |
| Thanks @jeff5 for the PR, and @gvanrossum for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.11. |
| GH-97658 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.10 branch. |
bedevere-bot removed needs backport to 3.10 | GH-97659 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.11 branch. |
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Companion to #96393, and stemming from points made in the discussions at https://discuss.python.org/t/supporting-or-not-invalid-identifiers-in-kwargs/17147/26 and #96397, this proposes extending how we define "attribute" to match the behaviour of implementations and some current user practice.
Needs SC discussion, I believe.