[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

[Guido van Rossum]

On 10/31/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
>
> > I'd like to make this a standard built-in, in the hope the debate on
> > how to declare settable properties.
>
> +1. I'm waiting for the obligatory cry for @propdel though :)

propdel: just say no.

> > I'd also like to change property so that the doc string defaults to
> > the doc string of the getter.
>
> I may be misunderstanding, but isn't that what patch #1434038 already
> implemented in 2.5?

D'oh, you're right. I tested this with 2.4 (which is the default
Python at Google). +1 on this proposal then. :-)

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