Panos Laganakos wrote:
> i.e. we usually define private properties and provide public functions
> to access them, in the form of:
> get { ... } set { ... }
>
> Should we do the same in Python:
>
> self.__privateAttr = 'some val'
>
> def getPrivateAttr(self):
> return self.__privateAttr
>
> Or there's no point in doing so?
>
If you want to do more than just setting an attribute or returning it then
define a property, but if you just want to save the value there is no point
using a property. In some other languages you cannot change an attribute
into a property without changing the interface to the class, so in those
languages you need to make everything a property just in case you ever need
it to be a property in the future.
In Python, when you need it to become a property you can change it without
breaking anything, so there is no need to obfuscate it prematurely.
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