Georg Brandl a écrit : > 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.
Making an attribute read-only is a common use case for properties, so using property as a decorator in this case seems quite ok. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
