Property() can be used to rid ourselves of the extra effort of using two different methods (getAttrib() setAttrib()) for access of an attribute without giving direct access to the attribute, thus making it more elegant. So, the outsider using my module accesses the attribute with the syntax 'Object.attrib', but since this syntax looks as if he is accessing the attribute (rather than through a descrtiptor), should we subscribe to this syntax only when the attribute is both readable and writable? i.e., if I have an attribute which I strongly believe would always be only readable, should I go with the old style 'Object.getAttrib()'? Would like to know different perspectives.
Thanks, K -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
