On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rather than changing the descriptor protocol in general, I'd personally be > more amenable to the idea of *property* catching AttributeError from the > functions it calls and turning it into RuntimeError (after a suitable > deprecation period). That way folks that really wanted the old behaviour > could define their own descriptor that works the same way property does > today, whereas if the descriptor protocol itself were to change, there's > very little people could do to work around it if it wasn't what they wanted. >
Actually, that makes a lot of sense. And since "property" isn't magic syntax, you could take it sooner: from somewhere import property and toy with it that way. What module would be appropriate, though? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
