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

Here is a minimal example of how @property can be implemented:

class Thing:
    def __init__(self, my_word):
        self._word = my_word 
    @property
    def word(self):
        return self._word

>>> print( Thing('ok').word )
'ok'

Otherwise word remains a method instead of a property.

class Thing:
    def __init__(self, my_word):
        self._word = my_word
    def word(self):
        return self._word

>>> print( Thing('ok').word() )
'ok'