Last Updated: December 6, 2025
Descriptors in Python are a powerful feature that can help you manage attribute access in your classes more elegantly. They allow you to define behavior for getting, setting, and deleting an attribute without needing to write that logic directly into a class.
This can enhance code organization, encapsulation, and reuse. If you’ve already tackled metaclasses, you’re in a good place to dive into descriptors and see how they can clean up and enhance your object-oriented programming.