Examples

Synthetic properties

With PySynthetic, the following code (8 lines)...

from synthetic import synthesize_constructor, synthesize_property

@synthesize_property('a', contract = int)
@synthesize_property('b', contract = list)
@synthesize_property('c', default = "", contract = str, read_only = True)
@synthesize_constructor()
class ShortAndClean(object):
    pass

... replaces this (43 lines):

from contracts import contract

class ThisHurtsMyKeyboard(object):

    @contract
    def __init__(self, a, b, c = ""):
        """
    :type a: int
    :type b: list
    :type c: str
"""
        self._a = a
        self._b = b
        self._c = c

    @property
    def a(self):
        return self._a

    @a.setter
    @contract
    def a(self, value):
        """
    :type value: int
"""
        self._a = value

    @property
    def b(self):
        return self._b

    @b.setter
    @contract
    def b(self, value):
        """
    :type value: list
"""
        self._b = value

    @property
    def c(self):
        return self._c

Synthetic accessors

But, if you are more into accessors than properties, you can use synthesize_member decorator instead.

This way, the following code (8 lines)...

from synthetic import synthesize_constructor, synthesize_member

@synthesize_member('a', contract = int)
@synthesize_member('b', contract = list)
@synthesize_member('c', default = "", contract = str, read_only = True)
@synthesize_constructor()
class ShortAndClean(object):
    pass

...will replace this (37 lines):

from contracts import contract

class ThisHurtsMyKeyboard(object):

    @contract
    def __init__(self, a, b, c = ""):
        """
    :type a: int
    :type b: list
    :type c: str
"""
        self._a = a
        self._b = b
        self._c = c

    def a(self):
        return self._a

    @contract
    def set_a(self, value):
        """
    :type value: int
"""
        self._a = value

    def b(self):
        return self._b

    @contract
    def set_b(self, value):
        """
    :type value: list
"""
        self._b = value

    def c(self):
        return self._c