On 2005-07-07, Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> 1) So I know whether an parameter was passed in or not. Perhaps
>> it's not considered good Pythonic style, but I like to use a
>> single method for both get and set operations. With no
>> parameters, it's a get. With a parameter, it's a set:
>>
>> class demo:
>> def foo(v=None):
>> if v is not None:
>> self.v = v
>> return self.v
>
> _NOVALUE = object()
> class demo:
> def foo(v=_NOVALUE):
> if v is _NOVALUE:
> return self.v
> else:
> self.v = v
Apart from the change in the logic such that the set operation
doesn't return a value, how is that any different? You're just
creating your own non-integer-value "None" object instead of
using the one built in to the language.
> But what's wrong with properties?
Huh?
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