Streamlining Accessors in Python

[Ubuntist]

I'm a big fan of OO but get tired of having to write accessor methods all the time. Basic read and write accessors are so simple and so commonly used that I think it would be great if Python had a shortcut for creating them. I know Ruby has such a shortcut built into the language itself. Is there some way of faking the same thing in Python?

[Wille]

You probably shouldn't use accessor functions in python. Just use attributes directly.

Later on, if you want to make attribute "electric" (so that get/set has side effects), you can use the "property" feature.

Though there seems to be a recipe that might interest you:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/157768

[Ubuntist]

Thanks -- that's cool piece of code!