How to get/set class attributes in Python

[Kalle Anke]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:35:15 +0200, John Machin wrote
(in article <42AC3A13.9020503 at lexicon.net>):

> OTOH, I beseech you to consider an attitude transplant :-)

;-)

> I.e. put your effort into writing code that allows people to do useful 
> things, rather than opaque guff full of __blahblah__ that stops them 
> from doing dopey or evil things they're usually smart enough or 
> righteous enough not to do anyway.

I'm just trying to protect myself from myself :-) No, I'm playing around with 
different ways of doing things, trying to learn Python and how do things in a 
proper "pythonic" way. 

In this case I'm going to have a class with some properties that are going to 
be stored in a database, I don't want to read all the properties everytime I 
recreate the object from the database but I still want to give the impression 
that the attributes exists and is available. So my idea was to "hide" the 
actual database stuff ...

> BTW, what do you think of this:
> 
> sys.maxint = -12345

I don't really understand what you're meaning.

                   jem