How does the @property decorator work in Python?

Question

I would like to understand how the built-in function property works. What confuses me is that property can also be used as a decorator, but it only

Answer 1

Documentation says it's just a shortcut for creating readonly properties. So

@property
def x(self):
    return self._x

is equivalent to

def getx(self):
    return self._x
x = property(getx)