Steven Taschuk staschuk at telusplanet.net
Wed Jun 4 14:33:40 EDT 2003

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Quoth Aahz:
  [...]
> No, Guido will insist on requiring a definition of a set function that
> raises an exception if you want to make it read-only.

For general descriptors, sure.  But the existing property built-in
doesn't require any such function to be provided explicitly; that
is its default behaviour when fset=None.  It would be reasonable
for a special syntax for properties to have the same defaults.

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