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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Oct 18 04:15:43 CEST 2005


Barry Warsaw wrote:

Ick, for all the reasons that strings are less appealing than names. IMO, there's not enough advantage in having the property() call before the functions than after.

That's not the only benefit - you also get overridability of the accessor methods.

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