On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 05/03/2016 03:51 AM, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> I can say from significant experience that that is *not* the only >> useful feature of property. >> >> Let's also not forget the even deeper magic that is the descriptor >> protocol in general. >> > > Well, what's the other useful feature? It lets you call methods without > the parentheses?
You seem to have this view that the sole purpose of getter and setter methods is to update a private member of some object. Am I understanding that correctly? Because either I'm misunderstanding you, or you seem to be confused about why property was created for Python. Best, Erik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
