Property Abuse

[Felipe O]

Hi All,
I was wondering what everyone's thought process was regarding properties.
Lately I find I've been binging on them and have classes with > 10
properties. While pylint doesn't complain (yet), it tends to be picky about
keeping instance attribute counts low, so I figure there's something
against that. How do you guys decide between using properties versus getter
methods, or how do you refactor them if neither?
Cheers!
-Felipe
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Backslash Escapes

[Felipe O]

Hi all,
Whenever I take any input (raw_input, of course!) or I read from a
file, etc., any backslashes get escaped automatically. Is there any
elegant way of parsing the backslashes as though they were written in
a python string. The best I have so far right now goes like this:

def parse_backslash_escapes(input_string):
parts = input_string.split("'''")  # That's ' " " " ' without the spaces
'"""'.join(eval + p + '"""') for p in parts)

I'm not entirely convinced that it's safe on two accounts.
+ Is that eval statement safe? The input could be coming from an
unfriendly source.
+ Are there any obscure backslash escapes or other tricks I should be aware of?

I guess the alternative is to make a dictionary of all the escapes I
want to support, but that sounds tedious and error-prone.

Thanks,

Felipe
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