On Nov 10, 2007 11:09 AM, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 10, 2007 11:31 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unless I get negative feedback really soon I plan to submit this later > > today. I've tweaked the patch slightly to be smarter about replacing > > the setter and the deleter together if they are the same object. > > Definitely +1 on the basic patch. > > Could you explain briefly the advantage of the "hack" that merges the > set and del methods? Looking at the patch, I get a little nervous > about this:: > > @foo.setter > def foo(self, value=None): > if value is None: > del self._foo > else: > self._foo = abs(value) > > That means that ``c.foo = None`` is equivalent to ``del c.foo`` right?
Which is sometimes convenient. But thinking about this some more I think that if I *wanted* to use the same method as setter and deleter, I could just write @foo.setter @foo.deleter def foo(self, value=None): ... So I'm withdrawing the hacks, making the code and semantics much simpler. See propset3.diff in http://bugs.python.org/issue1416 . -- --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
