[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r43545 - in python/trunk: Doc/lib/libcalendar.tex Lib/calendar.py (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 16:04:08 CEST 2006

Walter Dörwald wrote:

Tim Peters wrote:

Which isn't a good thing to lose. It's not good that the current Calendar constructor skips that sanity check either ("errors should never pass silently"). I've changed calendar so that firstweekday is only used modulo 7 everywhere (There was only one spot missing, all other cases used firstweekday modulo 7 anyway.

... Simple attribute access looks much more Pythonic to me than setters and gettes (especially as the attributes of subclasses are simple attributes). Or are you talking about the Calendar class itself? Yes, it would be best if Calendar had a property, so that sanity checks were performed when setting firstweekday, and also if the Calendar constructor performed that sanity check (which could happen "by magic" if firstweekday were a property). Range checks should no longer be neccessary, as any value works now.

But now all clients of the Calendar class are forced to deal with the fact that "firstweekday" may not be greater than seven.

If you want to accept any input value, why not use a property to force it to be modulo 7, rather than doing an actual range check?

Cheers, Nick.

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