bimorphic properties, too.

I coined the term, bimorphic method, last week.  Shortly after I wrote about them, I found I wanted a bimorphic property too.  It’s the same idea: create a decorator that turns a method into a property getter for both the class object and instances of the class.  Here’s an example.

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Bimorphic methods in Python

Methods in Python are either instance methods (the default), static, or class methods.  You can create the latter two using the @staticmethod and @classmethod decorators.

But maybe it would be better to have a single function that can be called either as a class method or an instance method.  I coined the term bimorphic method for this, and I wrote a decorator that can make a method bimorphic.