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[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 03:43:20 CET 2007 
On 10/31/07, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> If I had to choose built-in names, though, I'd prefer "property",
> "propset", "propdel".  Another possibility that seems reasonable
> (perhaps a bit better) would be:
>
>    class Thing(object):
>
>        @property
>        def attribute(self):
>            return 42
>
>        @property.set
>        def attribute(self, value):
>            self._ignored = value
>
>        @property.delete
>        def attribute(self):
>            pass

+1 on this spelling if possible.  Though based on Guido's original
recipe it might have to be written as::

      @property.set(attribute)
      def attribute(self, value):
          self._ignored = value

STeVe
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