Re: [Visualpython-users] text color problem?

I haven't used decorators myself, and because Visual was initiated in
2000, there aren't any decorators anywhere in the Python portions of
Visual. So I'm tone-deaf to the issue here and don't understand what
advantage would accrue either to developers of Visual or users of
Visual by replacing the following code (currently found in
vis/primitives.py)

    def set_color(self, color):
        self.extrusion.color = color

    def get_color(self):
        return self.__color

    color = property( get_color, set_color, None)

with

   @color.setter
   def set_color(self, color):
       self.extrusion.color = color

   @property
   def get_color(self):
       return self.__color

What am I missing? If I were to change this tiny piece of code to use
decorators, for consistency it would seem advisable to change all such
code segments, and I have no idea why this is advisable. Calling the
older scheme "unpythonic" doesn't help me see the light.

Bruce Sherwood

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Guy K. Kloss <guy...@au...> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 06:45:04 Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>> In vis/primitives.py, the code for
>> changing color and material for a text object should look like this:
>>
>>     def set_material(self, material):
>>         self.extrusion.material = material
>>     def get_material(self):
>>         return self.__material
>>
>>     def set_color(self, color):
>>         self.extrusion.color = color
>>     def get_color(self):
>>         return self.__color
>
> Are you *really* sure about that? Python usually does not use the concept of
> getters and setters. This turns out to be *very* unpythonic. I'd rather
> suggest the following:
>
>    @material.setter
>    def material(self, material):
>        self.extrusion.material = material
>
>    @property
>    def material(self):
>        return self.__material
>
>    @color.setter
>    def set_color(self, color):
>        self.extrusion.color = color
>
>    @property
>    def get_color(self):
>        return self.__color
>
> This exposes the given methods to transparently handle access (setting and
> getting) to mock attributes as they would be normally used within Python
> classes. It makes a nice API that is idiomatically consistent to use for a
> Pythoneer.
>
> For further reference on how to use the property() built-in, particularly in
> the way of decorators, have a look here:
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property
>
> Guy
>
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