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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 03:37:29 +1100
Subject: Re: Classes
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Seymore4Head
<Seymore4Head@hotmail.invalid> wrote:
[presumably quoting his course material]
> In this class, we will follow the practice of accessing the contents
> of objects using methods known as getters and setters. While not
> required by Python, this practice encourages the user of the class to
> manipulates class objects solely via class methods. The advantage of
> following this practice is that the implementer of the class
> definition (often someone other than the user of the class) may
> restructure the organization of the data fields associated with the
> object while avoiding the need to rewrite code that uses the class.

Yep, that's teaching C++/Java coding using Python. Isn't it time you
got onto a better course? Time and time again you've been going down
inadvisable paths, and it seems to me you could do better with the
inbuilt tutorial rather than this kind of course.

ChrisA