How to define properties in __init__

Question

I whish to define properties in a class from a member function. Below is some test code showing how I would like this to work. However I don\'t get the expected behaviour.

Answer 1

This does what you wanted:

class Basket(object):
  def __init__(self):
    # add all the properties

    def make_prop( name ):
        def getter( self ):
            return "I'm a " + name
        return property(getter)

    for p in self.PropNames():
        setattr(Basket, p, make_prop(p) )

  def PropNames(self):
    # The names of all the properties
    return ['Apple', 'Pear', 'Bread']

  # normal property
  Air = property(lambda s : "I'm Air")

if __name__ == "__main__":
  b = Basket()
  print b.Air 
  print b.Apple 
  print b.Pear 

Another way to do it would be a metaclass ... but they confuse a lot of people ^^.

Because I'm bored:

class WithProperties(type):
    """ Converts `__props__` names to actual properties """
    def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        props = set( attrs.get('__props__', () ) )
        for base in bases:
            props |= set( getattr( base, '__props__', () ) )

        def make_prop( name ):
            def getter( self ):
                return "I'm a " + name
            return property( getter )

        for prop in props:
            attrs[ prop ] = make_prop( prop )

        return super(WithProperties, cls).__new__(cls, name, bases, attrs)       

class Basket(object):
    __metaclass__ = WithProperties
    __props__ = ['Apple', 'Pear']

    Air = property(lambda s : "I'm Air")

class OtherBasket(Basket):
    __props__ = ['Fish', 'Bread']

if __name__ == "__main__":
    b = Basket()
    print b.Air 
    print b.Apple 
    print b.Pear 

    c = OtherBasket()
    print c.Air 
    print c.Apple 
    print c.Pear
    print c.Fish 
    print c.Bread