On Friday 18 January 2002 11:24, Ian Bicking wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 14:20, Tavis Rudd wrote: > > This 'quasi-properties' approach is faster than the > > 'accessor-method' approach that Webware currently uses. The true > > 'properties' style is the equivalent to, or possibly slower than, > > accessor methods. > > Ah, I see. You mean the plain attribute style, which properties > simulate. > > I feel like there's been proposals for adding doc strings to > attributes...? Ah... it's PEP 224, which has been rejected. Guido > proposed using a convention like: > > class Whatever > a = 10 > __doc_a__ = 'a is used for whatever'
But then what about docstring processing tools like pydoc? > Usually I'd just summarize all the attributes in the class doc > string. It's easier to read anyway, though it can't be > automatically extracted. That works, but its not as clean as the current approach. And it increases the chances of the docstring being out of date. _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
