What's the pythonic way to use getters and setters?

Question

I\'m doing it like:

def set_property(property,value):  
def get_property(property):  

or

object.property = value  
value =         


        

Answer 1

You can use the magic methods __getattribute__ and __setattr__.

class MyClass:
    def __init__(self, attrvalue):
        self.myattr = attrvalue
    def __getattribute__(self, attr):
        if attr == "myattr":
            #Getter for myattr
    def __setattr__(self, attr):
        if attr == "myattr":
            #Setter for myattr

Be aware that __getattr__ and __getattribute__ are not the same. __getattr__ is only invoked when the attribute is not found.