"Battleship" style game

[Steve Holden]

Shawn Milochik wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Marco Mariani <marco at sferacarta.com> wrote:
>> Yes it's in Python alright, but it's not Pythonese yet. You could try
>> avoiding the getter/setter stuff, and camelCase method naming, things like
>> that, for a start.
>>
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> 
> 
> What do you mean avoiding the getter/setter stuff? If I understand
> correctly, you're saying to directly access the attributes, which I
> specifically want to avoid because I may want to enforce some rules
> (such as not changing a ship length after it's created).
> 
If you wanted to enforce those restrictions you could just turn
attributes into properties.

> The camel-case thing I get -- I use that and this_type quite a bit,
> probably because of the inconsistency of the languages I use
> regularly, and standards at work and conventions in my hobby
> programming.

PEP 008 is the usual style recommendation.

regards
 Steve
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