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[Q] Accessors...

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Mon Jul 19 12:52:27 EDT 1999 
Olivier Deckmyn writes:
> 
> Is there a way to do the following :
> 
> class MyClass :
>     def __init__(self):
>         self._myAttr = None
> 
>     def get_myAttr(self):
>         return self._myAttr
> 
>     def set_myAttr(self, value)
>         self._myAttr = value # might do more interresting checkings
>         for
> examples
> 
> 
> and then use this like that:
> 
> m=MyClass()
> m.myAttr="foo"
> print m.myAttr

You need to get used to Python's dynamism.

class A:
  pass

a = A()
a.foo = 'bar'

If I've misunderstood your question, there was a recent thread
"Getters and Setters" about tricky ways to automatically create get
and set methods for attributes, so that given an instance of class A
with attribute foo, the user could write:

a = A()
a.getfoo()

without the programmer creating the getfoo method.

But if that's not what you want, don't go there!


- Gordon
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