Comment 1 for bug 29663

Salgado also suggested:

> This seems a bit evil to me. Have you checked with Andrew if there isn't a
> better way of doing this? Maybe having the DB column as a private attribute
> (not declared in the interface) and then providing a read-only property that
> only reads this private attribute. This way you won't need this _set_status()
> method and all the set_foo() methods could simply do "self._status = foo".