Greg Ewing wrote: > class C: > > foo = overridable_property('foo', "The foo property") > > def get_foo(self): > ... > > def set_foo(self, x): > ... > > This has the advantage that the accessor methods can be > overridden in subclasses with the expected effect.
This is a point I was going to bring up. > The only wart is the necessity of mentioning the property > name twice, once on the lhs and once as an argument. > I haven't thought of a good solution to that, yet. Have a look at my comment to Steven Bethard's recipe: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/408713 Tim Delaney _______________________________________________ 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