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Just a quick question, I’m having a little difficulty understanding where to use properties vs. where use to plain old attributes. The distinction to me is a bit blurry. Any resources on the subject would be superb, thank you!
Properties are more flexible than attributes, since you can define functions that describe what is supposed to happen when setting, getting or deleting them. If you don’t need this additional flexibility, use attributes – they are easier to declare and faster.
In languages like Java, it is usually recommended to always write getters and setters, in order to have the option to replace these functions with more complex versions in the future. This is not necessary in Python, since the client code syntax to access attributes and properties is the same, so you can always choose to use properties later on, without breaking backwards compatibilty.