[attribution lost] >>>> Looking into the library, I see many accessor >>>> functions starting with either get_ or get; however, I don't >>>> recall why that could have been relevant for socket objects.
[attribution lost] >>> If you think that should be changed to attributes, we should >>> do that. [Guido] >> Accessor functions are typical for APIs translated too literally from >> Java. (threading.py being an example :-( ) >> >> I'd like to change this as long as we're doing greenfield API design. [Georg Brandl] > Does that mean to change it to attributes? > (since I'm no professional BDFL channeler I could have misread your > sentence ;) Yup, that's what it means. In addition, the "greenfield" part meant specifically they should be changed to read-only attributes. One trick to professional channeling is to do the Pythonic thing, and then just pretend you read Guido's mind. Of course I'm _way_ beyond that :-) _______________________________________________ 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
