Using @property versus getters and setters
Here is a pure Python-specific design question:
properties
How to add property to a class dynamically?
The goal is to create a mock class which behaves like a db resultset.
How to make a class property?
The default behavior for attribute access is to get, set, or delete the
attribute from an object’s dictionary. For instance, a.x has a lookup chain
starting with a.__dict__['x'], then type(a).__dict__['x'], and continuing
through the base classes of type(a) excluding metaclasses.
When and how to use the builtin function property() in python
It appears to me that except for a little syntactic sugar, property() does nothing good.
How do Python properties work?
I’ve been successfully using Python properties, but I don’t see how they could work. If I dereference a property outside of a class, I just get an object of type property:
How to enumerate an object’s properties in Python?
Return all the members of an object in a list of (name, value) pairs sorted by name. If the optional predicate argument is supplied, only members for which the predicate returns a true value are included.
How to create a read-only class property in Python?
Essentially I want to do something like this: class foo: x = 4 @property @classmethod def number(cls): return x Then I would like the following to work: >>> foo.number 4 Unfortunately, the above doesn’t work. Instead of given me 4 it gives me <property object at 0x101786c58>. Is there any way to achieve the above? … Read more
When should an attribute be private and made a read-only property?
Use one leading underscore only for non-public methods and instance variables.
Set attributes from dictionary in python
Is it possible to create an object from a dictionary in python in such a way that each key is an attribute of that object?
Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)
Given the following format (.properties or .ini):