A Revised Rational Proposal

[Mike Meyer]

"John Roth" <newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> writes:

> I'd suggest making them public rather than either protected or
> private. There's a precident with the complex module, where
> the real and imaginary parts are exposed as .real and .imag.

This isn't addressed in the PEP, and is an oversight on my part. I'm
against making them public, as Rational's should be immutable. Making
the two features public invites people to change them, meaning that
machinery has to be put in place to prevent that. That means either
making all attribute access go through __getattribute__ for new-style
classes, or making them old-style classes, which is discouraged.

If the class is reimplented in C, making them read-only attributes as
they are in complex makes sense, and should be considered at that
time.


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