[Fixed]-Idiomatic python – property or method?

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It is okay to do that, especially if you will use the following pattern:

class SomeClass(models.Model):
    @property
    def is_complete(self):
        if not hasattr(self, '_is_complete'):
            related_objects = self.do_complicated_database_lookup()
            self._is_complete = len(related_objects) == 0
        return self._is_complete

Just remember that it “caches” the results, so first execution does calculation, but subsequent use existing results.

👤Tadeck

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