On 14 Sep, 2013, at 8:30, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> but the *primary* purpose is to >>> customise the retrieval of objects that will be checked to see if they're >>> descriptors. >> >> If that's the case, the PEP should make that clear. > > Technically, that's what "Currently object.__getattribute__ and > super.__getattribute__ peek in the __dict__ of classes on the MRO for > a class when looking for an attribute." means. > > However, I agree the current wording only conveys that to the handful > of people that already know exactly when in the attribute lookup > sequence that step occurs, which is a rather niche audience :)
I've been fooling around with this long enough that I forgot that not everyone knows this :-). I guess I'd better include a clearer and more complete description of the current attribute resolution protocol and how my proposal affects that. A nice readable Python implementation of that protocol would be nice to have regardless of the fate of this PEP. Ronald _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
