On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:36 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> Can you not overload the assignment = to automatically call whatever >> fancy setter you want to use? Then you get the simplicity I crave and the >> safety you desire? > > Yes, you can make it a 'property'.
No, No. 'property' works with instances of some class, but not with modules. This is a feature I miss from Python. You cannot 'hook' on attribute assignments in modules. -- Lisandro Dalc?n --------------- Centro Internacional de M?todos Computacionales en Ingenier?a (CIMEC) Instituto de Desarrollo Tecnol?gico para la Industria Qu?mica (INTEC) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient?ficas y T?cnicas (CONICET) PTLC - G?emes 3450, (3000) Santa Fe, Argentina Tel/Fax: +54-(0)342-451.1594
