What does Django’s @property do?

Question

As you see, the function full_name returns a string with the persons first and last name.

What the @property decorator does, is declare that it can be accessed like it’s a regular property.

This means you can call full_name as if it were a member variable instead of a function, so like this:

name = person.full_name

instead of

name = person.full_name()

You could also define a setter method like this:

@full_name.setter
def full_name(self, value):
     names = value.split(' ')
     self.first_name = names[0]
     self.last_name = names[1]

Using this method, you can set a persons full name like this:

person.full_name="John Doe"

instead of

person.set_full_name('John Doe')

P.S. the setter above is just an example, as it only works for names that consist of two words separated by a whitespace. In real life, you’d use a more robust function.

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