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Created June 28, 2012 16:44
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hacky decorator for class-level properties in python using @classmethods
class classproperty(property):
def __get__(self, cls, inst):
return self.fget.__get__(None, inst)()
class MyClass(object):
numbers = [1,2,3,4,5]
@classproperty
@classmethod
def has_numbers(cls):
return len(cls.numbers) > 0
# no instance of MyClass has been created
if MyClass.has_numbers:
print 'yay!, we have numbers!'
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