Immutability

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>> What I've not seen documented anywhere is the:
>>        @property
>>        def fset(self, value):
>>            ...
>> idiom. It's not obvious from the documentation of the property
>> function that it can be used as a decorator like this.
>probably because it cannot be used in that way: the "property" function
>takes the *getter* as its first argument, so you can only use this for read-
>only properties...

Ahem. Yes. What I obviously meant to write was:

What I've not seen documented anywhere is the:
       @property
       def fget(self):
           ...
idiom. [ ... ]

(As correctly written by someone else further upthread.) It is possible
to find it described by Googling, but the Cookbook (and python.org) hits
provide much more complicated general-purpose (ie setters as well)
property decorators.

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