[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/31/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >     @property
> >     def encoding(self):
> >         return self._encoding
> >
> >     @propset(encoding)
> >     def encoding(self, value=None):
> >         if value is not None:
> >             unicode("0", value)  # Test it
> >         self._encoding = value
>
> That's reasonably nice, although I'm not sure about the
> name "propset" -- it sounds like a repair kit for an
> aircraft. Maybe something like "setproperty" would be
> better.

I'm open for a naming contest.

> But there's something that bothers me about the whole
> propery mechanism -- there's no straightforward way for
> a property accessor to call the inherited version from
> a base class.

Isn't there? You can just use super() ISTR, though I haven't had the
need myself and don't recall the exact syntax.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)