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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Why won't this decorator work?
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:14:25 +1200
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Ian Kelly wrote:
> If it's not a callable, then the result
> will just be that something non-callable is bound to the "roll_die"
> name -- which could be useful, but is probably a bad idea in general.

There are legitimate uses -- for example, the following
is a convenient way of creating a read-only property:

   @property
   def foo(self):
     return self.calculate_value_of_foo()

-- 
Greg