On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:20:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a class for rectangle and it has two points in its __slots__ .
> However, we can derive a number of properties like width, height,
> centerPoint etc from these two points. Now, I want to be able to set
> and get these properties directly from the instances. I can either def
> __setattr__ , __getattr__ or I can define function for each property
> like setWidth(), setHeight() . Which one would be faster? I would
> prefer doing through __setattr__, __getattr__ because it makes the code
> more readable.
> However, speed is a concern I would have to do these operations in few
> thousand iterations for about 50-100 rectangles.
>>> class Rect(object):
... def __init__(self, a,b,c,d):
... # too lazy to use slots, sorry
... self.a, self.b, self.c, self.d = a, b, c, d
... def _width(self):
... return self.c - self.a
... width = property(_width, None, None, None)
...
>>>
>>> r = Rect(1, 2, 3, 4)
>>> r.width
2
Now let's see how fast it runs.
>>> import timeit
>>> timeit.Timer("r.width", "from __main__ import Rect; r =
>>> Rect(1,2,3,4)").timeit()
2.3775210380554199
Now you know how to test how fast code runs, you can write some code to
test.
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