Python class objectivity convention

Question

Is it a good style to create classes like that ? I read the PEP8 document but I didn't saw any good example. If not how is it a proper way ? Thanks for any answers.

class Zone:
    def __init__(self, index=None, name=None):
        self._index = index
        self._name = name

    @property
    def index(self):
        return self._index

    @property
    def name(self):
        return self._name

    @index.setter
    def index(self, index):
        self._index = index

    @name.setter
    def name(self, name):
        self._name = name

Answer 1

Your setters and getters don't do anything. With your implementation, the user of this class does this:

z = Zone()
z.name = 'foo'
print(z.name)

Compare to this implementation:

class Zone:
    def __init__(self, index=None, name=None):
        self.index = index
        self.name = name


z = Zone()
z.name = 'foo'
print(z.name)

It works exactly the same with a lot less code.

Unless you do anything in your setters and/or getters, you don't need them.