How to call a property of the base class if this property is being overwritten in the derived class?

Question

I\'m changing some classes of mine from an extensive use of getters and setters to a more pythonic use of properties.

But now I\'m stuck because some of my previous

Answer 1

Some small improvements to Maxime's answer:

• Using __class__ to avoid writing B. Note that self.__class__ is the runtime type of self, but __class__ without self is the name of the enclosing class definition. super() is a shorthand for super(__class__, self).
• Using __set__ instead of fset. The latter is specific to propertys, but the former applies to all property-like objects (descriptors).

class B(A):
    @property
    def prop(self):
        value = super().prop
        # do something with / modify value here
        return value

    @prop.setter
    def prop(self, value):
        # do something with / modify value here
        super(__class__, self.__class__).prop.__set__(self, value)