[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:11 AM 11/2/2007 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
>Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > Let's stick with "propset" which has precedent as an svn action and
>  > serves as a short, simple mnemonic to the functionality.
>
>But if we're going to have "propset", it raises the question
>of why there isn't a "propget".

Which can be eliminated by having property.setter, especially in the form:

     @property
     def foo(self):
         ...

     @foo.setter
     def foo(self, value):
         ...

     @foo.deleter
     def foo(self):
         ...

This even preserves Guido's "read-only + read-write" use case, and 
saves us a builtin.