Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > mystilleef wrote: > > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > > >>mystilleef wrote: > >>(snip) > >> > >>>Python doesn't have any philosophy with regards to naming identifiers. > >> > >>Yes it does. > > > > > > No it doesn't. > > > > > >>>>But they are in Python and that is the python's philosophy. All attribute > >>>>or > >>>>method not beginning with an '_' *is* API. > >>> > >>>Right, and what if I want to change a private API to a public one. > >> > >>Then you provide a public API on top of the private one. > >> > >>class MyClass(object): > >> def __init__(self, ...): > >> self._attr = XXX > >> > >> # seems like we really have enough use > >> # cases to justify exposing _imp_attr > >> @apply > >> def attr(): > >> def fget(self): > >> return self._attr > >> def fset(self): > >> self._attr = attr > >> return property(**locals()) > >> > >> > >> def _method(self, ...): > >> # code here > >> > >> # seems like we really have enough use > >> # cases to justify exposing _imp_method > >> method = _impmethod > >> > >>Note that none of this actually breaks encapsulation. > > > > > > Ha! Just as bad as getters and setter. > > What point are you trying to make here ? Of course a computed attribute > is just syntactic sugar for getters and setters - what else could it be? > > The difference is that you don't need to write explicit getters/setters > beforehand, nor to use a "behaviour" semantic. > > > > >>>How > >>>does that solve my naming issues. > >> > >>How could this solve *your* naming issue ? This is totally unrelated. > >>You choose a bad name for a *public* symbol. > > > > > > My point exactly! It doesn't solve my problem! > > What do you hope ? Something that cures cancer ? Please enlighten us and > explain how explicit getters/setters would have solved the problem of > badly named getters/setters ? > I did already. If I had used Java, Eiffel, Smalltalk or C++, I would have easily changed tmp to temporary_buffer without having search and replace or grep 27000 lines of code. The point of accessors in those languages is encapsulation. Which means I can change any detail of implementation, yes including names of attributes, without breaking code.
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