get rid of all those java-ish getters and setters about python-twitter HOT 2 OPEN

Yes, I think that is the right approach.  In fact, I've been tentatively 
planning to
use protobufs for the next version of this library to mirror the work on
java-twitter.  The python protobuf interface does exactly what you recommend.  
See
http://code.google.com/apis/protocolbuffers/docs/reference/python-generated.html
 for
details.

This will of course break backward compatibility, so it should wait until a 
version 2.0.

I'm a big +1 on this too. If class members have well-chosen names, they don't 
even
need commenting (they can be described in the docs, in examples, of course), let
alone a getter/setter. The above example is nicely chosen :-)

Terry