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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Nov 2 15:19:10 CET 2007


On 11/2/07, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote:

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Fred Drake wrote: >> @property >> def attribute(self): >> return 42 >> >> @property.set >> def attribute(self, value): >> self.ignored = value > > Hmmm... if you were allowed general lvalues as the target of a > def, you could write that as > > def attribute.set(self, value): > ... > Dotted names would be sufficient rather than general lvalues. I like this, I think it looks cleaner than the other options, especially if you write both getter and setter in the same style: attribute = property() def attribute.fget(self): return 42 def attribute.fset(self, value): self.ignored = value

Sorry, you have just entered Python 4000 territory.

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