Yep. You can use the [`@property`](http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#property) decorator, like so:
```python
class FooBar(object):
    @property
    def type(self):
        return "foobar"
```
and then use it like this:
```python
>>> fb = FooBar()
>>> fb.type
"foobar"
```