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<p>Dot indexing provides a way for users to:</p>
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<li><p>Access an object’s data fields, and</p></li>
<li><p>Call object methods</p></li>
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<p>To use <strong>dot indexing</strong> in a script or console, place a dot <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.</span></code> immediately after the object. To return a data field for the object, place the name of the data field 