[Python-3000] decorators for variable assignments? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Sep 22 03:08:53 CEST 2007


On 9/21/07, Arvind Singh <arvind1.singh at gmail.com> wrote:

@validateproxy proxy = "http://user:passwd@host:port/"

it makes more sense to have the validation of a user supplied configuration value at the time of assignment rather than leaving the burden of validation on every piece of code that uses it.

Why can't you just use a property that does the validation in its set method?

-- Greg



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