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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Nov 2 00:00:06 CET 2007

At 11:11 AM 11/2/2007 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:

Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Let's stick with "propset" which has precedent as an svn action and > serves as a short, simple mnemonic to the functionality.

But if we're going to have "propset", it raises the question of why there isn't a "propget".

Which can be eliminated by having property.setter, especially in the form:

 @property
 def foo(self):
     ...

 @foo.setter
 def foo(self, value):
     ...

 @foo.deleter
 def foo(self):
     ...

This even preserves Guido's "read-only + read-write" use case, and saves us a builtin.

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