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On 09/07/2017 03:49 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:

Excluding Lib/test, there are 375 uses of "@property" in the stdlib in trunk, 60 uses of \_\_getattr\_\_, and 34 of \_\_getattribute\_\_.

I spent a minute looking at the output and realized there were a bunch of hits inside pydoc\_data/topics.py, aka documentation. And then I realized I was only interested in definitions, not docs or calls or other hackery.

Removing pydoc\_data/topics.py and changing the search terms results in:

"@property" 375 hits
"def \_\_getattr\_\_" 28 hits
"def \_\_getattribute\_\_(" 2 hits

Unless the average use of \_\_getattr\_\_ serve in excess of 13 members each, property is the most popular technique of the three.

/arry