Thanks to all, I added the object as a subclass (should this be required for 2.4.1 ???)
I also switched to the decorator with the @property syntax Thank you very much for the help for adding @property to the language. what a great language :-) Mike Michael Schneider wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been working on learning how to use python properties. > > The get property access is working, but the the set > property is not working. > > Rather then dispatching the property assignment to setNothing, the > property object is being replaced with a string. > > I must be doing something very stupid here. > > Could someone please point out my error, I have dents in my forehead > for this one. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > from unittest import TestCase > import unittest > > > class Task: > def __init__(self,command): > self._command = command > > def setNothing(self, value): > raise AttributeError > > def getCommand(self): > return self._command > > command=property(getCommand, setNothing) > > > class taskTest(TestCase): > > def testTask(self): > t = Task("dir c:") > c = t.command > self.assertEquals("dir c:", c) > > # should fail, but doesn't > t.command = "foo Bar" > > self.assertEquals("dir c:", t.command) > > > > if __name__ == "__main__": > unittest.main() -- The greatest performance improvement occurs on the transition of from the non-working state to the working state. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list