I am trying to use a property method to set the status of a class instance, with the following class definition:
class Result:
def __init__(self,x=None,y=None):
self.x = float(x)
self.y = float(y)
self._visible = False
self._status = "You can't see me"
@property
def visible(self):
return self._visible
@visible.setter
def visible(self,value):
if value == True:
if self.x is not None and self.y is not None:
self._visible = True
self._status = "You can see me!"
else:
self._visible = False
raise ValueError("Can't show marker without x and y coordinates.")
else:
self._visible = False
self._status = "You can't see me"
def currentStatus(self):
return self._status
From the results though, it seems that the setter method is not being executed, although the internal variable is being changed:
>>> res = Result(5,6)
>>> res.visible
False
>>> res.currentStatus()
"You can't see me"
>>> res.visible = True
>>> res.visible
True
>>> res.currentStatus()
"You can't see me"
What am I doing wrong?