Mastering Object-oriented Python

Creating properties

A property is a method function that appears (syntactically) to be a simple attribute. We can get, set, and delete property values similarly to how we can get, set, and delete attribute values. There's an important distinction here. A property is actually a method function and can process, rather than simply preserve, a reference to another object.

Besides the level of sophistication, one other difference between properties and attributes is that we can't attach new properties to an existing object easily; however, we can add attributes to an object easily, by default. A property is not identical to simple attributes in this one respect.

There are two ways to create properties. We can use the @property decorator or we can use ...