property_vs_attribute.py

# aside from the dict being vulnerable to overwrite what benefit does the @property give
# over the dict on the instance in this particular use case?

class MyClass(object):

    @property
    def my_attribute(self):
        return {
            'key': 'value'
        }
        
    my_dictionary = {
        'key': 'value'
    }

my_dictionary can be accessed on the class by doing MyClass.my_dictionary which you cannot do with my_attribute. my_dictionary can also be used as a global-ish scope shared by all instances of MyClass. I don't think there is a benefit of one over the other, they would just be used for different reasons.

Thanks for clearing that up. I've seen a @class_property decorator in pytool for accessing the property on the class.