attribute decorators

[gert]

Would it not be nice if you could assign decorators to attributes too ?
for example

class C:
@staticattribute
data='hello'

or

class C:
@privateattribute
data='hello'

 

[Gert Cuykens]

sorry for repost i just found out the news group comp.lang.python is
the same as (e-mail address removed)

 

[Steven D'Aprano]

Would it not be nice if you could assign decorators to attributes too ?
for example

class C:
@staticattribute
data='hello'

You can. You just have to write it as:

class C:
data = staticattribute('hello')

(Of course, writing the staticattribute function is a non-trivial problem.)

or

class C:
@privateattribute
data='hello'

That would be written as

class C:
_data = 'hello'

or possibly

class C:
__data = 'hello'

depending on whether you want private attributes to be by convention or by
name-mangling.