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The Python Property Builtin:

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I thought attribute accessors are a good idea until I saw Python's approach to it: properties! Basically, you still write accessors, say, get_x and set_x, but then by including

x = property(self.get_x, self.set_x) the class user can use A.x as if it were an attribute. The advantage over an attribute is that set_x and get_x can contain code.