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		scott_s on Oct 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guido van Rossum's Performance tips for Python Sacrificing abstractions is quite common in all languages when optimizing code.

jasomill on Oct 13, 2012 [–]

For what it's worth, the only thing you sacrifice in Python by omitting trivial a getter/setter pair is the docstring: unlike Java, the syntax doesn't change, and, for Python classes, there is no such thing as .NET-style "binary compatibility".

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