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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Classes
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:49:43 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-10-31, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Seymore4Head
><Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>> Because the topic of that lesson was getter setter.
>> I can construct an __init___  but I was practicing get/set.
>
> Doesn't sound like a very good lesson to me.

It's not.  It's teaching java or C++ or some other language while
using a Python compiler.

> Getters and setters are the Java way of doing things. The Pythonic
> way is to just use an attribute, and then replace it with a property
> in the unlikely event that getter/setter logic needs to be added.

Exactly.

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