New PEP: Attribute Access Handlers

[Paul Prescod]

Christian Tanzer wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> In short, folding get/set/del into one function sucks. Besides, it
> doesn't really help when you want to overload just get, but would like
> to keep the set/del of the ancestor.

That isn't true. You can chain gets to your ancestor's __attr_XXX__
method if you want, but handle sets yourself or vice versa.
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