On 01 Mar 2005 10:30:01 GMT, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However in python, there is no harm in accessing the attributes > directly. You can change the implementation whenever you like, and > change the attributes into property()s and the users will never know. [ ... ] > Read only attributes are easy to understand, unlikely to go wrong and > faster than getBlah() accessor methods. > Writable attributes I think are good candidates for methods though. > Looking inside an object is one thing but changing its internal state > is another and should probably be done through a defined interface. I wish I'd said it that well in the first place myself. :-) Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> Îâ à Îâ à c = 1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
