Immutability

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <e7tf75$1f5$1 at news.albasani.net>,
Georg Brandl <g.brandl-nospam at gmx.net> writes:
|> > 
|> > Thanks very much.  And, what's more, I have even found its documentation!
|> > Whatsnew2.2.  The 2.4.2 reference is, er, unhelpful.
|> 
|> Is it?
|> 
|> http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html
|> 
|> documents "property" quite well.

Sigh.  No.  It's terrible.  What it documents is the use of the property
FUNCTION.  It does not document what properties ARE, and how they interact
with the rest of the language.  Until you know that, it is so ambiguous
as to be almost totally useless - and it is THAT information that needs to
be in the reference manual, but is only in whatsnew2.2.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.