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What's the difference between property class and property decorator

I have seen a code which used this way for defining a property

property sockets:
    def __get__(self):
        cdef list sockets = []

does it have any difference with declaring it with a decorator?

Solution

  • The __get__ and et al way of defining property functions is legacy syntax and deprecated in favour of the @property decorators - per docs:

    There is also a special (deprecated) legacy syntax for defining properties in an extension class:

    cdef class Spam:

    property cheese:

    The code generated by Cython is functionally equivalent and can be seen by examining the C files but the syntax is legacy, deprecated and may be removed in future Cython versions.