[Python-Dev] Definining properties - a use case for class decorators? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sun Oct 16 18:20:13 CEST 2005

On 10/16/05, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/16/05, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > Nick, and everybody else trying to find a "solution" for this > "problem", please don't. There's nothing wrong with having the three > accessor methods explicitly in the namespace, it's clear, and probably > less typing (and certainly less indenting!). Just write this: > > class C: > def getFoo(self): ... > def setFoo(self): ... > foo = property(getFoo, setFoo)

Does this necessisarily mean a 'no' still for class decorators, or do you just not like this particular use case for them. Or, are you perhaps against this proposal due to its use of nested classes?

I'm still -0 on class decorators pending good use cases. I'm -1 on using a class decorator (if we were to introduce them) for get/set properties; it doesn't save writing and it doesn't save reading.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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