python – Modifying __getattr__ to return a nested attribute instead of the named object

I’m writing an application with two basic class types:

1. DocumentObject
2. Property (of document object).

Property instances are attributes of the DocumentObject class and The Property class has several simple attributes of its own (value, unit, etc.) and some methods.

In trying to make the scripting as user friendly as possible, I would like
objectName.propertyName
to return the value attribute of the Property instance, not the Property instance itself. Of course, it is possible to write objectName.propertyName.value but most of the time, the user will be interacting with the value, not the Property instance.

It seems it should be possible to implement this behaviour using modified __getattr__ and __setattr__ methods in DocumentObject like in the following example:

Input

class Property():
    def __init__(self, name, value):
        self.name = name
        self.value = value


class DocumentObject():
    def __init__(self, properties):
        object.__setattr__(self, 'properties', dict())
        self.properties = properties
 
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        if "properties" in vars(self):
            if name in self.properties:
                return self.properties(name).value
            else: raise AttributeError
        else: raise AttributeError
 
    def __setattr__(self, key, value):
        if key in self.properties:
            self.properties(key).value = value
        else:
            object.__setattr__(self, key, value)
 

brick = DocumentObject({'length': Property('length',10), 'width': Property('width',5)})
print(brick.properties("length").name)
print(brick.length)

Output

length
10

Questions:

1. Is is good practice to do this?
2. Are there likely to be some negative consequences of this decision?
3. Is there a more elegant solution that I have missed?