bruno at modulix wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: >> >>class Foo: > > old-style classes are deprecated, please use new-style classes: > class Foo(object): >
This should be re-phrased to 'Use new-style classes, or else!' py> class Foo: ... def __init__(self, color): ... self._color = color ... color = property(fget=lambda self: self._color) ... py> p = Foo('red') py> p.color 'red' py> p.color = 'green' # shouldn't be able to do this py> p.color 'green' py> py> class Parrot(object): ... def __init__(self, color): ... self._color = color ... color = property(fget=lambda self: self._color) ... py> p = Parrot('orange') py> p.color 'orange' py> p.color = 'pink' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? AttributeError: can't set attribute James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list