On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 00:14, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:06 PM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> *blinks*
>>
>> When did this happen?
>>
>> I'm on Python-Ideas, Python-Dev, and I get announcements of new issues
>> on the bug tracker, and I don't recall ever seeing this feature
>> discussed.
>>
>
> Oddly I barely recall it either, even though according to PEP 487 it was
> posted five times to python-dev, and I approved it. It's a long time ago
> though (two retirements, for me :-).
>


I think that __set_name__ was greatly expected as one way to mitigate `DRY`
with descriptors it was completely uncontroversial - unlike
__init_subclass__ on the same PEP.
I for one had used it a lot of times, and I am a big fan of __set_name__

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