Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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>. -- \ “Try to learn something about everything and everything about | `\ something.” —T.H. Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
