attributes, properties, and accessors -- philosophy

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Ethan Furman a écrit :
> 
> Very helpful, thank you.  Hopefully my brain will be up to the 
> descriptor protocol this time... the last couple times were, um, less 
> than successful.  :)

Well, it's quite simple in fact. Most of the "magic" happens in 
object.__getattribute__ and object.__setattr__. You'll find a rough 
description of what happens here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/a136f7626b2a8b7d/70a672cf7448c68e