[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

[Steven Bethard]

On Nov 10, 2007 11:31 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Unless I get negative feedback really soon I plan to submit this later
> today. I've tweaked the patch slightly to be smarter about replacing
> the setter and the deleter together if they are the same object.

Definitely +1 on the basic patch.

Could you explain briefly the advantage of the "hack" that merges the
set and del methods?  Looking at the patch, I get a little nervous
about this::

        @foo.setter
        def foo(self, value=None):
            if value is None:
                del self._foo
            else:
                self._foo = abs(value)

That means that ``c.foo = None`` is equivalent to ``del c.foo`` right?

STeVe
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