class level properties

[Charles D Hixson]

Peter Otten wrote:
> Charles D Hixson wrote:
>
>   
>> I want a hundred or so read-only variables, and I'm not sure the best
>> way to achieve it.
>>     
>
> What do you really want to do? I recommend that you forget about bondage and
> rely upon displine:
>
> class Test(object):
>     """Never change an attribute with an uppercase name."""
>     SIMPLE = "simple example working"
>
> Now that was easy...
>
> Peter
>
>   
What I'm doing it translating Java code which has a large number of  
"public static final (type)" variables.

As to your answer ... yes, and with good discipline you can write object 
oriented code in C and never need a garbage collector.  It's *not* a 
good answer.  Before I'd chose that one, I'd make it necessary to 
instantiate the class before testing the value of it's constants.  It's 
just that that seems to be a silly requirement, so I'd like to avoid 
it.  (That's the "solution" that I currently have working with __getattr__.)