Clean Code in Python

Properties

When the object needs to just hold values, we can use regular attributes. Sometimes, we might want to do some computations based on the state of the object and the values of other attributes. Most of the time, properties are a good choice for this.

Properties are to be used when we need to define access control to some attributes in an object, which is another point where Python has its own way of doing things. In other programming languages (like Java), you would create access methods (getters and setters), but idiomatic Python would use properties instead.

Imagine that we have an application where users can register and we want to protect certain information about the user from being incorrect, such as their email, as shown in ...