When I look at how classes are set up in other languages (e.g. C++), I often observe the following patterns: 1) for each data member, the class will have an accessor member function (a Get<whatever> function) 2) for each data member, the class will have a mutator member function (a Set<whatver> function) 3) data members are never referenced directly; they are always referenced with the accessor and mutator functions
My questions are: a) Are the three things above considered pythonic? b) What are the tradeoffs of using getattr() and setattr() rather than creating accessor and mutator functions for each data member? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
