# `property`

Usually encountered as a [decorator][decorators] that controls read / write access to a [class attribute][class-attributes], but actually implemented as a specialized class all its own. See the [docs][docs-property-as-function] for details.

[decorators]: ../decorators.md
[class-attributes]: ../class_attributes.md
[docs-property-as-function]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#property
