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[โ€“] barubary@infosec.exchange 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's just syntax.

>>> 10 .yearsTraceback (most recent call last):  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'years'
[โ€“] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, I figured there would be a workaround. Also

>>> (10).years()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<python-input-0>", line 1, in <module>
    (10).years()
    ^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'years'

But the other thing is also: can you add methods to the int class so that they're available everywhere? I suspect that you cannot in python, at least without significant hackery. And I also suspect that it's probably something they decided to prevent knowingly.