Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that the quoted article only applies to *writing* attributes. It > doesn't say anything about needing accessors to *read* a > variable. This encourages me that the convention I use - adopted from > Eiffel, where the compiler enforces it - of freeling reading > attributes, but providing methods to write them - is a right way todo > things.
Generally that sounds reasonable. Obviously there are other examples when (e.g. for security) you have to make sure that variables can't be read by other classes, e.g. you have a class that stores a capability (or a password) in an instance variable, and uses it for privileged operations. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
