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How to Use Getter Without Setter

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4186...

Accepted answer links:
[new-style classes]: https://docs.python.org/2/reference/data...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 7


You'll need to inherit from object for properties to work properly.

class Test(object):
    ...

That's because properties are implemented with descriptors and only new-style classes support descriptors.