[Python-Dev] Declaring setters with getters

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Wed Oct 31 18:57:43 CET 2007


> I'd like to make this [propset] a standard built-in, 

+1 -- I find this to be an attractive syntax

> I'd also like to change property so that the doc 
> string defaults to the doc string of the getter.

+1 -- This should also be done for classmethod,
staticmethod, and anything else that wraps functions.

Alternatively, the doc string could be made a little
more informative:

__doc__ = 'property of function %s: %s' % (f.__name__, f.__doc__) 


Raymond


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