Immutability

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <mailman.7574.1151511089.27775.python-list at python.org>,
"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
|> 
|> identical?  you only applied @property to one of the methods, and then you're
|> surprised that only one of the methods were turned into a property?

I wasn't expecting EITHER to be turned INTO a property - I was expecting
both methods to be the same, but one would have non-default properties
attached to it.

|> @property turns your "joe" method into a getter method for the (virtual) attribute
|> "joe".  when you access the attribute, the getter method will be called.  whatever
|> that method returns will be the attribute's value.

Ah!  That clarifies a lot.

|> that's what the documentation
|> says, and that's what your code is doing.

Er, no, it doesn't.  What it says may well be COMPATIBLE with that, but
it is compatible with a good many other interpretations, too.  Until and
unless you know what it means, you can't extract its meaning from its
words.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.