On Sep 4, 7:09 am, "Marco Bizzarri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry... pressed enter but really didn't want to. > > As I said, let's say I have a class > > class A: > def __init__(self): > self.x = None > > Python makes the decision to allow the developers to directly access > the attribute "x", so that they can directly write: "a.x = 1", or > whatever; this has for me the unfortunate side effect that if I write, > for example "a.y = 1", when I really wanted to write "a.x = 1" no one > cares about it, and I'm unable to spot this error until later. > > Of course, I know that while I'm fresh, I've a good knowledge of the > code, and anything else, I will be able to avoid such stupid errors; > however, I'm afraid of the times when I'm tired, when I have to put my > hands on the code of someone else, and so on.
So what happens in Java (or any language for that matter) if there are indeed two attributes x and y with the same type and you mistype the one for the other ? Or if you meant to write x-y instead of y-x ? When coding tired or on someone's else code, stupid errors are the ones you should worry the least about. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list