Ant wrote: > We seem to be flogging a dead horse now. Is the following a fair > summary: > > Q. What is the Pythonic way of implementing getters and setters? > > A. Use attributes. > > Quote: "I put a lot more effort into choosing method and function > names" > > Wisdom: Python is a different paradigm from (e.g.) Java w.r.t. > accessors: Put the effort you would have put into choosing accessor > names into choosing attribute names. > > Anything else to add to this? Or can it be put to bed?
Here are the lessons I've learned (the hard way). 1) Make all attributes of a class private or protected. You can make them public later if need be. If anyone tells you making attributes private/protected is not Pythonic ignore them. You'll thank me when your code base grows. 2) If a data attribute might likely be an API, think about controlling access to via "properties". That's the pythonic way to implement accessors and mutators I guess people who've done medium to large scale programming in Python already know this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
