could mention the @property shortcut for readonly attributes here:

class C(object):
    @property
    def x(self):
        return value

turns the "x" method into a "getter" for a read-only attribute with the same name.

Note that this syntax also works for old-style classes, but the resulting attribute isn't read-only. If you assign to the attribute, you'll overwrite the property descriptor.

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