built-in 'property'

[Steven Bethard]

Sean Ross wrote:
> I'll note that it is possible to change
> the built-in property (in a backward compatible manner) to be used as a
> decorator for this idiom, to redefine parts of properties in sub-classes,
> and to provide default get/set/del methods.

Is there a recipe or blog or something somewhere that talks about 
redfining property in these ways?  I'd be interested to read about it...

Steve