<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Thanks for the help. I now understand it better. As Bruno points out, I > really don't need a property in this case, as my attribute is public, > and I will remove it.
As much to the point is that your name attribute is static in the sense of being a fixed object between settings. Should you later want to make it dynamic (or perhaps lazy) in the sense of being computed on demand, then you can do so with property() *without* changing the external interface to the class. A third reason for property() is when you want to do something in addition to the access, such as reporting the access to something else. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
