[Python-Dev] Definining properties - a use case for class decorators? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Oct 18 04:08:12 CEST 2005


Guido van Rossum wrote:

Let's change the property built-in so that its arguments can be either functions or strings (or None).

If an argument is a string, it should be a method name, and the method is looked up by that name each time the property is used.

That sounds reasonable.

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