The COMPLETE guide to Python properties

Properties are unbelievably useful in Python, and serve as a convenient shortcut to one of Python's most powerful concepts, and everyone's favourite thing, descriptors! (Don't worry, properties abstract all the complex stuff away.) We won't just be looking at what they do though, we'll be going into detail about how properties work, and why they're so powerful!

00:00 - Intro [1]
00:50 - Managing private attributes using getters, setters, and deleters [2]
05:04 - Computed properties
07:00 - Cached properties [3-4]
09:44 - How are properties implemented? [5-7]
14:58 - Outro

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/python...
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/fun...
[3] https://docs.python.org/3/library/fun...
[4]    • SPEED UP Python with caching  
[5] https://docs.python.org/3/howto/descr...
[6]    • Are descriptors the most MISUNDERSTOO...  
[7]    • Generics are VITAL in typed Python  

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