[Python-3000] decorators for variable assignments?

[Greg Ewing]

On 9/21/07, Arvind Singh <arvind1.singh at gmail.com> wrote:

>  @validate_proxy
>  proxy = "http://user:passwd@host:port/"
>
> it makes more sense to have the validation
> of a user supplied configuration value at the time of assignment
> rather than leaving the burden of validation on every piece of code
> that uses it.

Why can't you just use a property that does the validation
in its set method?

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Greg