synthetic properties

[Diez B. Roggisch]

rowland at river2sea.org schrieb:
> I'm trying to come up with solution for adding synthetic properties to
> python, similar to synthetic properties in Objective-C.
> 
> I'm playing around with doing this in a MetaClass.  I can dynamically
> create the attributes that will back the property, but I'm having
> trouble figuring out how to dynamically generate get/set methods to
> pass to the built-in property() function.

Why on earth do you want to do that? The reason synthesized properties 
exist in ObjC is simply that to expose properties for key-value-coding, 
one needs the getter/setters. But mostly these are boilerplate, so apple 
introduced the @synthesized-annotation.

But in python, you don't need that. You use simple attributes. In the 
very moment you need logic attached, use the builtin property to do so.




Diez