newb question about @property

[Stephan Houben]

Op 2017-10-01, Bill schreef <BILL_NOSPAM at whoknows.net>:
> I watched an example on YouTube where someone wrote a simple descriptor 
> ("@Time_it) to output the amount of time that it took ordinary functions 
> to complete.    To be honest, I AM interested in descriptors. 

Are you sure you are not confusing deSCRIPTtors and deCORAtors here?

@Time_it 

is decorator syntax.

Despite the similarity in the words, there are totally different things.

Descriptors are objects with __get__, and optionally __set__ and
__delete__ methods (i.e. they implement the descriptor protocols).

Decorators aren't really an official type, but loosely speaking these
are any functions which can be applied meaningfully with a single
function or class as argument. Some very mundane functions can be
(ab)used as decorators.

In [1]: @repr
   ...: def hello():
   ...:     pass
   ...:

In [2]: hello
Out[2]: '<function hello at 0x1048a50d0>'

Stephan