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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 08:47:23 -0600
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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. 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.