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Sun Nov 14 19:27:30 CET 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-November/049916.html

Hi  ,
i wondered why string and bool literals have access methods and one can 
call simply

 >>> "1".__class__
<type 'str'>

 >>> False.__class__
<type 'bool'>

But this won't be true for int literals and float literals except for 
those float literals that are
terminated by a dot:

 >>> 1..__class__
<type 'float'>

The expression below raises an error:

 >>> 1.__class__
Traceback (  File "<interactive input>", line 1
    1.__class__
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

So it seems to be a parser-problem, related to the ambiguity of the 
terminating dot?
Could this be patched?

Thanks
           Kay

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