On 2021-05-30, Irv Kalb <i...@furrypants.com> wrote: > I understand what a "property" is, how it is used and the benefits, > but apparently my explanation hasn't made the light bulb go on for my > editor. The editor is asking for a definition of property. I've > looked at many articles on line and a number of books, and I haven't > found an appropriate one yet. > > I have written some good examples of how it works, but I agree that a > definition up front would be helpful. I have tried a number of times, > but my attempts to define it have not been clear. Perhaps the best > I've found so far is from the Python documentation: > > A property object has getter, setter, and deleter methods usable as > decorators that create a copy of the property with the corresponding > accessor function set to the decorated function.
A property is an attribute of a class that pretends to be a data attribute but in fact causes methods to be called when it is accessed. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
