Enhanced property decorator

[Ben Finney]

Daniel <millerdev at gmail.com> writes:

> I've often been frustrated by the inability of the built-in property
> descriptor to handle anything other than a read-only property when
> used as a decorator.

The fact that the 'property' function works as a decorator (in, as you
point out, some cases only) is a happy accident. The 'property'
function isn't *designed* to be used as a decorator, it just happens
to work that way.

> Solution 1: new built-in function/descriptor
[…]

> Solution 2: Enhance the built-in property descriptor
[…]

> Solution 3: […] require new syntax for the yield keyword, which
> would yield an unnamed function object (similar to a lambda object).
[…]

All of these require changes in Python or its standard library.

Here are some solutions that work now, with Python as it is, for using
decorators to implement full-featured properties
<URL:http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary#head-d6f79f980db88e0bdf258e9c9e7d34ce37b43eee>.

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Ben Finney