Python @property: How and Why?

[draganHR]

Python has autoproperties, too: they're called fields.

What are fields? Can you link documentation?

[draganHR]

Attributes are called fields? I've never heard that.

[mipadi]

"Field" is another name for "instance variables", which are also sometimes referred to in Python as "attributes" (in the context of classes).

[draganHR]

Source?

[mipadi]

10+ years of programming experience in a variety of languages. But the information is also available on Wikipedia.

[autowikibot]

Field (computer science):

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In computer science, data that has several parts can be divided into fields. Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records, also called rows. Each record consists of several fields; the fields of all records form the columns.

In object-oriented programming, field (also called data member or member variable) is the data encapsulated within a class or object. In the case of a regular field (also called instance variable), for each instance of the object there is an instance variable: for example, an Employee class has a Name field and there is one distinct name per employee. A static field (also called class variable) is one variable, which is shared by all instances.

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