At 07:26 AM 12/13/2005 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: >Personally, I'd actively discourage use of trivial accessors. Simple >attribute access is not only "fine", IMO, but it is much better than >trivial accessors. This is an important point, IMO, because, in my >experience, the vast majority of accessors *are* trivial.
+1000. Python is not Java. It's hard enough to get former Java users to stop writing getters and setters in the first place, without PEP 8 providing even a sliver of support for that nonsense. If anything, PEP 8 should warn in the strongest possible terms about the wastefulness of this practice and its detrimental effects on code size, readability, and performance. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
