<p>I've been writing <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>python</span></a> for 12 years and TIL you can put arbitrary amounts of whitespace either side of the `.` when accessing attributes. `object .attribute`, `object. attribute`, and `object . attribute` all work.</p><p>(I noticed this by writing `fig. ax = plt.subplots()` having already defined a figure previously. I was very confused for quite a while.)</p>