On the property function

[Chris Rebert]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Virgil Stokes<vs at it.uu.se> wrote:
> Does anyone have a good example (or examples) of when "property(...)" can be
> useful?

Erm, when you want to create a property (i.e. computed attribute).

from __future__ import division
class TimeDelta(object):
    def __init__(self, secs):
        self. seconds =secs

    @property
    def minutes(self):
        return self.seconds/60

    @property
    def hours(self):
        return self.minutes/60

    @property
    def days(self):
        return self.hours/24

td = TimeDelta(55555555555)
print td.days, "days", "=", td.hours, "hours", "=", td.minutes, "minutes"

Cheers,
Chris
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