[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Nov 1 03:23:11 CET 2007

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On Oct 31, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 10/31/07, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

I'd like to make this [propset] a standard built-in,

+1 -- I find this to be an attractive syntax

I'd also like to change property so that the doc string defaults to the doc string of the getter. +1 -- This should also be done for classmethod, staticmethod, and anything else that wraps functions. With this level of support, it could be implemented by this afternoon! (and backported to 2.4 within a week. ;-)

I know you're joking about the backporting. Neal, no sneaking this
into 2.5.2 now! :)

BTW, +1 on this. I like Fred's suggestion of property.set().

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