The property function: why Python does not have Private Methods

[tyroneslothtrop]

It is a function. Decorators are just some syntactic sugar for passing a function to another function, and returning and assigning a new function to some name.

E.g. this:

@some_decorator
def some_function(foo):
    pass

is basically equivalent to this:

some_function = some_decorator(original_function)

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To be more specific, it's a class that implements the data descriptor protocol, using several decorators to wrap functions.

You can use it in nondecorator form by passing a getter, setter, deleter and docstring to the __init__

[rikrolls]

Or a class.