Following onto yesterday’s post about Python Properties and @property, there is a neat little trick to create a read-only property of a Python class. All you have to do is omit the setter. This Hero class has a read-write property “name” class Hero(object): def __init__(self, **kwargs): self.name = kwargs[‘name’] @property def name(self): return ‘%s %s’ % […]

My son pointed me at PyCharm and, while poking through it’s built-in “intentions,” I discovered Python’s @property decorator, which led me to learn more about the Pythonic way to handle class properties. Unlike Java and C++, Python encourages you to create public class attributes (a/k/a properties). Here is an example: class Hero(object): def __init__(self, **kwargs): […]