On 11/1/07, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:11 AM 11/2/2007 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote: > >Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > > Let's stick with "propset" which has precedent as an svn action and > > > serves as a short, simple mnemonic to the functionality. > > > >But if we're going to have "propset", it raises the question > >of why there isn't a "propget". > > Which can be eliminated by having property.setter, especially in the form: > > @property > def foo(self): > ... > > @foo.setter > def foo(self, value): > ... > > @foo.deleter > def foo(self): > ... > > This even preserves Guido's "read-only + read-write" use case, and > saves us a builtin.
Although it begs the question what happened to @foo.getter. I'm only +0 on this -- I can't quite pinpoint what's wrong with it but it doesn't fell 100% right. Maybe I just need to sleep on it. -- --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
