Steve Holden wrote: >>>Thanks very much. And, what's more, I have even found its documentation! >>>Whatsnew2.2. The 2.4.2 reference is, er, unhelpful. >> >> >> Is it? >> >> http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html >> >> documents "property" quite well. >> > I can't really agree that "quite good" documentation doesn't refer to > the use of property as a decorator. It's obvious that a ncessary upgrade > to the docs didn't happen (and we can all understand why, I am sure).
In my opinion property isn't really meant to be used as a decorator since it's impossible to create a read-write property. The decorator pattern doesn't really fit here. What I agree is that it's not really defined what a "property" object is and what its properties are. For that, documentation patches are welcome. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
