Re: Do I need setters/getters in python?

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/8/2020 4:10 PM, zljubi...@gmail.com wrote:

Consider this code:


class SetGet:

     _x = 1

     @property
     def x(self):
         return self._x

     @x.setter
     def x(self, value):
         self._x = value


class Dynamic:

     x = 1

if __name__ == '__main__':

     a = SetGet()

     print(f'x = {a.x}')
     a.x = 2
     print(f'x = {a.x}')

     a = Dynamic()
     print(f'x = {a.x}')
     a.x = 2
     print(f'x = {a.x}')


Output is the same:

x = 1
x = 2
x = 1
x = 2

If I have public property and I am not doing any transformation with data that 
is used to sat variable value... do I need a setter/getter at all?

No!


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Terry Jan Reedy

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