On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Marco Bizzarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry... pressed enter but really didn't want to. > > As I said, let's say I have a class > > class A: > def __init__(self): > self.x = None > > > > Python makes the decision to allow the developers to directly access > the attribute "x", so that they can directly write: "a.x = 1", or > whatever; this has for me the unfortunate side effect that if I write, > for example "a.y = 1", when I really wanted to write "a.x = 1" no one > cares about it, and I'm unable to spot this error until later. > > Of course, I know that while I'm fresh, I've a good knowledge of the > code, and anything else, I will be able to avoid such stupid errors; > however, I'm afraid of the times when I'm tired, when I have to put my > hands on the code of someone else, and so on. > > Please, understand that I'm not stating that python is wrong... after > all, if it is wrong, I can move to a language like Java, which has a > different approach on it. I'm really very interested in reading past > discussion on it, if they are available. > > Regards > Marco
I think the most obvious solution to the problem is effective unit tests. If you type "a.y =1" and have a test that asserts a.x == 1 then you would quite quickly discover that you made a typo. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
