colpage.py

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Yes, I have had to use some systems libraries like that in an OS course as well.  God was it awful.  There is zero reason to try to emulate that in python (and often no good reason to do it in C either).

thinking about why they merged get and set functions, i guess it was memory.  memory scalability was a big issue back in those days.  the smaller the executable was, the less of other issues came up.  today, memory is cheap, and architecture are being built for lots of it.  when the get/set issue no longer has to worry about memory and programmers don't scale at all, then separate get and set makes sense.  so people like me need to think about their choices more to be sure we are working with today's need.

i still think explicit coding is better.  but i'll keep thinking about it.