[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Nov 2 00:00:06 CET 2007
At 11:11 AM 11/2/2007 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
>Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > Let's stick with "propset" which has precedent as an svn action and
> > serves as a short, simple mnemonic to the functionality.
>
>But if we're going to have "propset", it raises the question
>of why there isn't a "propget".
Which can be eliminated by having property.setter, especially in the form:
@property
def foo(self):
...
@foo.setter
def foo(self, value):
...
@foo.deleter
def foo(self):
...
This even preserves Guido's "read-only + read-write" use case, and
saves us a builtin.
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