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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Classes
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:32:42 +1300
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Like all good Pythonistas[1], we hate Java and think that getter/setter
> methods are pointless. But come on, they're not *wrong*,

What's wrong is the statement that getters and setters
are necessary to allow the implementation to change
without changing the interface. That's factually
incorrect in regard to Python.

-- 
Greg