Problem with Property

[Peter Hansen]

"none <"@bag.python.org wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a simple repeateable property mechansism so I 
> don't have to write accessors for every single instance variable I have.
...

> Any ideas?

Yes, don't write accessors for every single instance variable you have. 
  In some languages that might be appropriate, or considered good style. 
  In Python, it's entirely unnecessary and you should just access 
instance variables directly when you want to, and in the odd case where 
you want to do something more than set/get/del them you can resort to 
properties (when a nice clear method wouldn't fit).

(Sorry not to answer the question directly.  If you feel you really need 
to use accessors then go ahead, but I just wanted you to know that many 
Python programmers feel quite differently about them than, say, C++ or 
Java programmers might.)

-Peter