[Tutor] property built-in

[Kent Johnson]

wesley chun wrote:
>>>     x= property(**x())
>>>
>>> questions:
>>>     1: why doesn't there have to be a self in x()?
>> x is not a "normal" class method.  It is only used as a container to
>> hold the "real" methods which are returned in the locals() dictionary.
> 
> 
> on a related note, if you're using Python 2.4 and newer, you can
> simplfy your code a bit by replacing the call to property() with a
> decorator for x, as in:
> 
> @property
> def x():
>     :

I don't think so. This will wrap x itself as a property, equivalent to
x = property(x)
which is not the same as Lloyd's code which turns the dict returned by x 
into a property:
x = property(**x())

Kent