property decorator -> redefinition of function

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Original report by cassapanco on Launchpad:

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Code from: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property

foo.py

class C(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self._x = None

    @property
    def x(self):
        """I'm the 'x' property."""
        return self._x

    @x.setter
    def x(self, value):
        self._x = value

    @x.deleter
    def x(self):
        del self._x

pyflakes output is

$ pyflakes foo.py
foo.py:11: redefinition of function 'x' from line 6
foo.py:15: redefinition of function 'x' from line 11

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Original comment by kamil.paral on Launchpad:

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I can confirm this problem.

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Original comment by kisielk on Launchpad:

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There's a patch in a pending pull request on the kevinw/pyflakes fork on github that addresses this issue:

https://github.com/ervandew/pyflakes/commit/b971f2775500b4154619dc5d71ba77fc7e4efdf6

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Original comment by exarkun (@exarkun?) on Launchpad:

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The feature seems questionable to me. However, it would be easier to evaluate the implementation if there were unit tests for the change.

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Original comment by glyph on Launchpad:

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It looks like this was fixed - inadvertently perhaps? - by http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~divmod-dev/divmod.org/trunk/revision/2685.

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Original comment by mestrelion on Launchpad:

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Any news on when this fix will be released in Ubuntu?