You can do this in Python as well. Check out the property built-in function. One can declare a property with a get, set, and delete method. Here's a small example of a read-only property.
class Test(object):
def getProperty(self):
return 0;
prop = property(fget = getProperty)
t = Test()
print t.prop
t.prop = 100 # this will fail
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