Track 11 · Lesson 6 of 12

Encapsulation and properties

Keep an object's data valid with the _internal convention, @property getters, validating setters and computed attributes.

You will be able to

• Explain encapsulation and the leading-underscore convention for internal attributes
• Turn an attribute into a @property so reading it runs code
• Write a setter that validates new values, and reuse it from __init__
• Provide read-only computed attributes such as totals and conversions