How should I expose read-only fields from Python classes?

Question

I have many different small classes which have a few fields each, e.g. this:

class Article:
    def __init__(self, name, available):
        self.name = name         


        

Answer 1

I would stick with your option 1 but refined it to use Python property:

class Article
    def get_name(self):
        return self.__name

    name = property(get_name)