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Marcos Gonzalez
Marcos Gonzalez

Reputation: 1096

C Code for Python's property function?

I am really curious as to how Python's interpreter makes an attribute x out of a method x through x=property(x). If I could take a look at the C code, I would feel much better.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1291

Answers (1)

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1123400

The type is defined in the descrobject.c file.

You can locate Python types like these by first looking for the function name in bltinmodule.c; in this case the following line defines the property() function:

SETBUILTIN("property",              &PyProperty_Type);

then grep for the PyProperty_Type definition in the Objects subdirectory.

Upvotes: 10

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