A new Property idiom in Python

There are really smart guys around the world, especially in python world. One of these guys (Sean Ross) suggested this to be used instead of the regular property in python:

"""
Rather than defining your get/set/del methods at the class level, as is usually done, e.g.

class MyClass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self._foo = "foo"

    def getfoo(self):
        return self._foo
    def setfoo(self, value):
        self._foo = value
    def delfoo(self):
        del self._foo
    foo = property(getfoo, setfoo, delfoo, "property foo's doc string")

I would like to suggest the following alternative idiom:
"""


class MyClass(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self._foo = "foo"
        self._bar = "bar"

    def foo():
        doc = "property foo's doc string"
        def fget(self):
            return self._foo
        def fset(self, value):
            self._foo = value
        def fdel(self):
            del self._foo
        return locals()  # credit: David Niergarth
    foo = property(**foo())

    def bar():
        doc = "bar is readonly"
        def fget(self):
            return self._bar
        return locals()    
    bar = property(**bar())

I've started using these idiom and I'm happy to be able not to bloat my classes with getters and setters...