On Jun 16, 9:19 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Virgil Stokes<v...@it.uu.se> wrote: > > Does anyone have a good example (or examples) of when "property(...)" can be > > useful? > > Erm, when you want to create a property (i.e. computed attribute). > > from __future__ import division > class TimeDelta(object): > def __init__(self, secs): > self. seconds =secs > > @property > def minutes(self): > return self.seconds/60 > > @property > def hours(self): > return self.minutes/60 > > @property > def days(self): > return self.hours/24 > > td = TimeDelta(55555555555) > print td.days, "days", "=", td.hours, "hours", "=", td.minutes, "minutes" > > Cheers, > Chris > --http://blog.rebertia.com
To add a little more, this link _ http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html _ might help. - Search for 'Getters and setters' and you will reach the place where property is explained more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
