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On 2/9/2012 10:36 AM, John Posner wrote:
> 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

Suggested doc changes on the tracker get reviewed, and often applied.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy