Dataclasses and property decorator

Question

I\'ve been reading up on Python 3.7\'s dataclass as an alternative to namedtuples (what I typically use when having to group data in a structure). I was wondering if datacla

Answer 1

After trying different suggestions from this thread I've come with a little modified version of @Samsara Apathika answer. In short: I removed the "underscore" field variable from the __init__ (so it is available for internal use, but not seen by asdict() or by __dataclass_fields__).

from dataclasses import dataclass, InitVar, field, asdict

@dataclass
class D:
    a: float = 10.                # Normal attribut with a default value
    b: InitVar[float] = 20.       # init-only attribute with a default value 
    c: float = field(init=False)  # an attribute that will be defined in __post_init__
    
    def __post_init__(self, b):
        if not isinstance(getattr(D, "a", False), property):
            print('setting `a` to property')
            self._a = self.a
            D.a = property(D._get_a, D._set_a)
        
        print('setting `c`')
        self.c = self.a + b
        self.d = 50.
    
    def _get_a(self):
        print('in the getter')
        return self._a
    
    def _set_a(self, val):
        print('in the setter')
        self._a = val


if __name__ == "__main__":
    d1 = D()
    print(asdict(d1))
    print('\n')
    d2 = D()
    print(asdict(d2))

Gives:

setting `a` to property
setting `c`
in the getter
in the getter
{'a': 10.0, 'c': 30.0}


in the setter
setting `c`
in the getter
in the getter
{'a': 10.0, 'c': 30.0}