[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Nov 1 23:10:20 CET 2007


Fred Drake wrote:
>        @property
>        def attribute(self):
>            return 42
> 
>        @property.set
>        def attribute(self, value):
>            self._ignored = value

Hmmm... if you were allowed general lvalues as the target of a
def, you could write that as

   def attribute.set(self, value):
     ...

--
Greg


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