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Object-Oriented Programming in Python

Get and SetGet and Set

Getter and setter are methods for non-direct access to the attributes:

  • get() (getter) returns the value of the private attribute;
  • set() (setter) sets the value.

These methods are called properties.

You can implement them by defining two additional methods:

Note

We added data validation inside the set_age() method. Only the correct integer value can be assigned to the attribute.

Section 2.

Chapter 2