[sage-devel] Re: Is it OK to replace certain cached methods by lazy attributes?

[Maarten Derickx]

I think attributes are considered more pythonic for many things than 
> methods.  We insist on methods for many things in Sage because you can 
> document methods (but it's hard and not intrinsically supported by 
> python to document and introspect attribute documentation).
>
Well, it is supported if you make the attribute a property. Since most of 
those things are already functions it would be very easy

sage: class test(object):
....:     @property
....:     def documented(self):
....:         """some doc"""
....:         pass
....:     
sage: l=test()
sage: l.documented?


http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property 


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