get/set

[Alex Martelli]

Mark McEahern wrote:

> [William Dode]
>> coming from java, i use to do a lot of get set method and make all the
>> variable as private.
>>
>> class Toto:
>> def getA(self): return self._a
>> def setA(self,v): self._a=v
>> ...
>>
>> Shall i do like that in python ?
> 
> Field descriptors are new with Python 2.2 

Yes.

> and require the new-style
> classes.

No.

>>> class X:
...   def getTer(self): return 23
...   def setTer(self, value): pass
...   ter = property(getTer, setTer)
...
>>> x = X()
>>> x.ter
23


Alex