Nick Coghlan added the comment: To get the behaviour you're requesting, you need to use a custom metaclass and define the property there. The reason is that the descriptor machinery is bypassed entirely when setting or deleting an attribute on the class itself:
>>> class Example: ... @property ... def p(self): ... return 1 ... >>> Example.p <property object at 0x7f0901d7d548> >>> Example().p 1 >>> Example().p = 2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: can't set attribute >>> Example.p = 2 >>> Example.p 2 >>> Example().p 2 >>> Example().p = 3 Hence, the only way to get a "class property" is to use the normal @property descriptor in a custom metaclass (i.e. the class-of-the-class) ---------- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20659> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
