Inappropriate access to properties

Reports cases when properties are accessed inappropriately:

Read-only properties are set
Write-only properties are read
Non-deletable properties are deleted

Example:

class MyClass:
    @property
    def read_only(self): return None

    def __write_only_setter(self, value): pass

    write_only = property(None, __write_only_setter)


a = MyClass()
a.read_only = 10 # property cannot be set
del a.read_only # property cannot be deleted
print(a.write_only) # property cannot be read

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PyPropertyAccess

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Python

Inspection ID: PyPropertyAccessInspection

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PyPropertyAccess

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	CLion 2025.2, DataSpell 2025.2, IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, PyCharm 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025