> > Is there any reason why people should be allowed to assign and
> > retrieve attributes with non-string names?
>
> Not really, but why should we actively try to prevent it when it's
> easy to do self.__dict__[1] = 'a'? This means you can't rely on all
> attribute names being strings, and I'm not going to prevent *that*.
>
> The proper fix IMO for the bug you found is to be more careful when
> formatting the error message.
I take it back. All the other functions in object.c require the
getattr/setattr argument to be a string or Unicode object. I'll fix
object.__getattribute__ and object.__setattr__ (which are really
PyObject_Generic{Get,Set}Attr) to do the same.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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