[attribution lost]
Looking into the library, I see many accessor functions starting with either get_ or get; however, I don't recall why that could have been relevant for socket objects.
[attribution lost]
If you think that should be changed to attributes, we should do that.
[Guido]
Accessor functions are typical for APIs translated too literally from Java. (threading.py being an example :-( )
I'd like to change this as long as we're doing greenfield API design.
[Georg Brandl]
Does that mean to change it to attributes? (since I'm no professional BDFL channeler I could have misread your sentence ;)
Yup, that's what it means. In addition, the "greenfield" part meant specifically they should be changed to read-only attributes. One trick to professional channeling is to do the Pythonic thing, and then just pretend you read Guido's mind. Of course I'm _way_ beyond that :-)