R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: I added some tests in test_property in my checkout and the __doc__ property is not, as far as I can tell, set read-only by the issue 5890 fix.
The error message referenced in the report is: AttributeError: 'Boost.Python.StaticProperty' object attribute '__doc__' is read-only If Boost.Python.StaticProperty is a subclass of Property, which seems likely, then the 5890 fix could well be triggering this error, since if a property created with a subclass is given a docstring, the fix creates a __doc__ attribute in the subclass's dict. If the subclass dict is read only, the above error would be triggered. I don't know enough about extension types to know if the property code should be special casing extension types, but if it should, then IMO that would qualify 5890 as a regression. Otherwise I don't think it is, though we could still consider whether making a change to reduce user pain is worthwhile. (To be worthwhile it would have to be likely to reach the users before the Boost fix does...apparently Boos has a fix in their SVN for this problem.) I'm guessing that this is a problem only with extension types, not with pure Python code. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray stage: -> test needed type: -> behavior _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7183> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
