Immutability

[Gerard Flanagan]

Nick Maclaren wrote:
> 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.
>
>

There are (unofficial) documentation wikis here:

    pytut.infogami.com
    pyref.infogami.com
    pyfaq.infogami.com

You might like to consider adding the information you perceive to be
lacking.

All the best.

Gerard