On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:54:52 +0200, Kalle Anke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm coming to Python from other programming languages. I like to
>hide all attributes of a class and to only provide access to them
>via methods. Some of these languages allows me to write something
>similar to this
>
>int age( )
>{
> return theAge
>}
>
>void age( x : int )
>{
> theAge = x
>}
>
>(I usually do more than this in the methods). I would like to do
>something similar in Python, and I've come up with two ways to do
>it: The first one uses the ability to use a variable number of
>arguments ... not very nice. The other is better and uses
>__setattr__ and __getattr__ in this way:
>
>class SuperClass:
> def __setattr__( self, attrname, value ):
> if attrname == 'somevalue':
> self.__dict__['something'] = value
> else:
> raise AttributeError, attrname
>
> def __str__( self ):
> return str(self.something)
>
>class Child( SuperClass ):
> def __setattr__( self, attrname, value ):
> if attrname == 'funky':
> self.__dict__['fun'] = value
> else:
> SuperClass.__setattr__( self, attrname, value )
>
> def __str__( self ):
> return SuperClass.__str__( self ) + ', ' + str(self.fun)
>
>Is this the "Pythonic" way of doing it or should I do it in a different
>way or do I have to use setX/getX (shudder)
I'm totally new to Python myself, but my understanding is that
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