[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Dec 13 17:43:10 CET 2005

At 07:26 AM 12/13/2005 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote:

Personally, I'd actively discourage use of trivial accessors. Simple attribute access is not only "fine", IMO, but it is much better than trivial accessors. This is an important point, IMO, because, in my experience, the vast majority of accessors are trivial.

+1000. Python is not Java. It's hard enough to get former Java users to stop writing getters and setters in the first place, without PEP 8 providing even a sliver of support for that nonsense. If anything, PEP 8 should warn in the strongest possible terms about the wastefulness of this practice and its detrimental effects on code size, readability, and performance.

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