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Getters and Setters

Explore how to implement getters and setters in Python classes to control access to private properties. Understand their role in information hiding and encapsulation, enabling you to write safer and more modular object-oriented code.

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Get and set

In order to allow controlled access to properties from outside the class, getter and setter methods are used.

A getter method allows reading a property’s value. ...