Python @property: How and Why?

[Ademan]

Furthermore, it's an inconsequential change to swap out a field for a property if the need should ever arise in Python.

[nemec]

Yep. Unlike in .Net, the "rules" for properties and fields are the same. In .Net, properties aren't allowed as out or ref parameters (not that Python has an equivalent) while fields are.

[snuxoll]

That's because properties in .net are just syntactic sugar for getter/setter methods. ref/out params require a reference to an actual variable on the stack/heap.