is it possible to give an instance a value?

[manstey]

Thanks everyone for your replies. The language is Cache Object Script,
a language used in  Intersystems Relational Dbase.

I think egbert's answer provides the simplest answer. It allows our
python interface to Cache to be almost identical to Cache Object
Script, with simeply the addition of (), which we prefer to .val
or .data for various reasons.

Using the example .type was a mistake, as I meant simply any metadata
about a value. If we make the instance callable, then we can have:

instance()
instance.calculated
instance.type
instance.whatever
instance.save()
etc

thanks.