Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > >>> @parent.setter >>> def set_parent(self, new_parent): >>> self._parent = new_parent >> This creates a settable property with the name "set_parent" and leaves >> the read-only property "parent" alone.
> Yes, and more. That property will also have a get method! Is it > intentional? It's a logical effect of how the setter() method works. The above is syntactic sugar for def set_parent(...): ... set_parent = parent.setter(set_parent) and parent.setter() creates a new property basically like this def setter(self, fset): return property(self.fget, fset, ...) Not very elegant, but I don't see a cleaner alternative. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list