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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:36:38 -0500
From: John Posner <jjposner@optimum.net>
Subject: Re: Re: what is the difference between @property and method
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On 2:59 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:


> It is kind of funny that the docs don't ever explicitly say what a
> property is. http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property --
> Devin 

Here's a writeup that does:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/AlternativeDescriptionOfProperty

-John