En Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:52:20 -0200, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> escribió:

Steve Holden wrote:
Brian Allen Vanderburg II wrote:

One idea to make constants possible would be to extend properties to be
able to exist at the module level as well as the class level:

@property
def pi():
  return 3.14159.....

print(pi) # prints 3.14159....
pi=32 # Raise an error Cannot set attribute ...

I don't understand why this would print 3.14159 ... instead of <function
__math__.pi>, or whatever.
 property would clearly have to do something very different in module
scope in order to make this work.
 regards
 Steve

--> class tester(object):
...   @property
...   def pi(self):
...     return 3.141596
...
--> testee = tester()
--> testee.pi
3.1415959999999998

Looks like that's how property works, so the same behavior on a module level would do as Brian suggests.

Note that:
 - you defined the property inside the *class* tester
 - then, you created an *instance* of such class
 - you retrieve pi from the instance
- if you retrieve pi from the class (tester.pi), you get a property object, not a float. - if you directly attach the property to the instance, testee.pi returns a property object, not a float. Finally, consider that modules are instances of type `module`; all modules are instances of the same type.

How do you propose to make properties work at the module level?

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Gabriel Genellina

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