From 47673c47db352916384e4f35fa520e48475e2601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:37:51 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-20692: Add Programming FAQ entry for 1.__class__ error. (GH-28918) To avoid error, add either space or parentheses. (cherry picked from commit 380c44087505d0d560f97e325028f27393551164) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- Doc/faq/programming.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++ .../2021-10-13-00-42-54.bpo-20692.K5rGtP.rst | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-13-00-42-54.bpo-20692.K5rGtP.rst diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index ef80808a1a4d..12b70dbbe730 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -836,6 +836,27 @@ ago? ``-190 % 12 == 2`` is useful; ``-190 % 12 == -10`` is a bug waiting to bite. +How do I get int literal attribute instead of SyntaxError? +---------------------------------------------------------- + +Trying to lookup an ``int`` literal attribute in the normal manner gives +a syntax error because the period is seen as a decimal point:: + + >>> 1.__class__ + File "", line 1 + 1.__class__ + ^ + SyntaxError: invalid decimal literal + +The solution is to separate the literal from the period +with either a space or parentheses. + + >>> 1 .__class__ + + >>> (1).__class__ + + + How do I convert a string to a number? -------------------------------------- diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-13-00-42-54.bpo-20692.K5rGtP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-13-00-42-54.bpo-20692.K5rGtP.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..44ae468d1bcc --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-10-13-00-42-54.bpo-20692.K5rGtP.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Add Programming FAQ entry explaining that int literal attribute access +requires either a space after or parentheses around the literal. -- 2.47.3