Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: ... > IMHO, if getting a property involves a potentially long computation, > it's better to have an accessor method rather than a property; > xpto.getFoobar() hints right away the programmer that to access that > value some code has to be run, so the programmer is more likely to store > the result in a temp variable for use in the same context, instead of > calling it multiple times. Similar reasoning applites for setter vs > property =.
That's why, in my suggested writeup, I suggested that attributes should be used if the accessors are trivial. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
