Is this object counter code pythonic

[Fredrik Lundh]

jnair at ensim.com wrote:

> My Team  Lead says  my object counter  code seen below is not  pythonic
>
> class E(object):
>    _count = 0
>    def __init__(self):
>        E._count += 1
>    count = property(lambda self: E._count )
>
> def  test():
>    if __name__ == "__main__":
>        e1 = E()
>        print e1.count
>        e2 = E()
>        print e2.count
>        e3 = E()
>        print e3.count
>
> test()
>
> if  not  what would be the  pythonic way

why are you using a getter (the property) instead of just exposing the
attribute ?  why not just do

    class E(object):
        count = 0 # instance counter
        def __init__(self):
            E.count += 1

?

and this is a bit backwards:

> def  test():
>    if __name__ == "__main__":
>        /code/
> test()

I suspect you meant to write:

if __name__ == "__main__":
    def  test():
        /code/
    test()

or even

if __name__ == "__main__":
    /code/

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