Johnny Lee wrote: > Class A: s/C/c/
> def __init__(self): > self.member = 1 > > def getMember(self): > return self.member > > a = A() > > So, is there any difference between a.member and a.getMember? yes : a.member is an integer, a.getMember is a bound method. You could have found this by yourself... Note that the getter/setter plague is useless and unpythonic. Use properties instead if you need to control attributes access. There are decorator idioms to make clean and easy properties, look here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list