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added more reasons to avoid dot notation (#43724)

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Brian Coca 2018-08-31 10:32:36 -04:00 committed by Alicia Cozine
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@ -466,6 +466,13 @@ for a list of the known public attributes.
Also array notation allows for dynamic variable composition, see dynamic_variables_. Also array notation allows for dynamic variable composition, see dynamic_variables_.
Another problem with 'dot notation' is that some keys can cause problems because they collide with attributes and methods of python dictionaries.
.. code-block:: jinja
item.update # this breaks if item is a dictionary, as 'update()' is a python method for dictionaries
item['update'] # this works
.. _argsplat_unsafe: .. _argsplat_unsafe: