Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[James Mills]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Russ P. <Russ.Paielli at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Russ, I think _you_ are missing the point.
>> If the attribute is already public, why does it need properties? Why would a
>> programmer go to the trouble of adding them manually, just to get one level of
>> indirection for an already public attribute?
>
> You don't understand the purpose of properties -- and you tell me that
> *I* am the one missing the point?

Russ, he is correct. Your opinions are not founded on solid knowledge.

Python programmers tend to not have a need for
properties. Quite honestly they are a waste of time.
They come from traditional OO approaches to software design
(and mostly from the Java world).

> I give up. I really don't have time for this.

You've said that before :)

cheers
James