I am quite new to Python and I cant seem to be able to understand this.Consider this simple Python code.
class point:
i = 34
test = point()
test.y = 45
print test.y
As you can see I instance of point called test but then did test.y = 45 when y is not a
data member of the point class. No error was thrown and the y attribute seems to have
been added to the class automatically.
Why did this happen? Isn't this a misfeature? Or am I missing something very basic. The same thing cannot be done with C++ and it would throw a compiler error. Any reason for this strange feature?