On 10/31/07, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:08 AM 10/31/2007 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >I've come up with a relatively unobtrusive pattern for defining > >setters. Given the following definition: > > > >def propset(prop): > > assert isinstance(prop, property) > > def helper(func): > > return property(prop.__get__, func, func, prop.__doc__) > > return helper > > Shouldn't that be property(prop.fget, func, prop.fdel, prop.__doc__),
Of course. (Though my code works too. :-) > and have a matching propdel decorator? Yes, though I think that if prop.fdel is None, we could use func in both slots. > Apart from those extremely small nits, a big +1, and I expect to > swipe this idea more or less immediately. :) Be my guest. I should patent this; it's apparently non-obvious. :-) (I can't recall why I didn't think of this sooner, and why nobody else did.) > >I'd also like to change property so that the doc string defaults to > >the doc string of the getter. > > +1 also; I thought it did this already, but am now disappointed to > find it doesn't. :) Patch for 2.6 anyone? -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
