Property as a decorator in Python 2.4?

Question

I'm developing an application for someone who is tied down to Python 2.4. According to the Python builtins page's description of property that "the getter, setter, and deleter attributes were added" in Python 2.6. Is there still a way to use property as a decorator, or is it imperative to use the x = property(...) syntax?

Answer 1

You can use it as a decorator, but you can only specify a getter if you do so. You can delete the getter, setter, and deleter methods once you have called property() though.