On Thu, Nov 01, 2007, Greg Ewing wrote: > > But there's something that bothers me about the whole propery > mechanism -- there's no straightforward way for a property accessor to > call the inherited version from a base class. > > Wrapping property accessors up in decorators makes this worse. At > least when the accessors are declared as separate functions you have > a chance of grabbing an inherited one and calling it. But if they're > buried inside property descriptors with no other reference to them, > it's a lot harder to get hold of one.
That's why the property delegates to a normal method. (Kudos to Martelli for the idea.) -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Typing is cheap. Thinking is expensive." --Roy Smith _______________________________________________ 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
