Accessors in Python (getters and setters)

[danielx]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> ZeD wrote:
> > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>I decided to change the name of an attribute. Problem is I've used the
> >>>attribute in several places spanning thousands of lines of code. If I
> >>>had encapsulated the attribute via an accessor, I wouldn't need to do
> >>>an unreliable and tedious search and replace
> >>
> >>find and grep are usually mostly reliable for this kind of tasks.
> >
> >
> > you mean sed :)
>
> No, I meant find and grep.
>
> > sed 's/oldName/newName/g' oldFile > newFile
> >
> Yeah, fine - as long as your pretty sure the same name is not used in
> other contexts in any of the source files...
>
> --
> bruno desthuilliers
> python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
> p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"

I think that was the original point about find/replace: it can be
really hard to automate a name change, because changes might occur that
you didn't intend; whereas, doing things by hand lacks consistency.

My solution is to use emacs' query-replace (which you can invoke with
M-%). It will find quicly and accurately, but I ultimately hold the key
to whether something gets replaced or not.