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Hey,

I have a simple class like this:

class Test:
    def __init__(self, name):
        self._name = name

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

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

I was expecting it to invoke the setter during creation, so the following would return a capitalized name:

    test_cl = Test("jimmy")
    print(test_cl.name)

But the output is still:

Output:
jimmy

Shouldn't the init run the setter and if not, is it possible to have it do so?

Use self.name = name instead of self._name = name to run the setter.

That works.

Thank you very much.