Juan Arrivillaga added the comment:
But when would you want to have a descriptor as an instance attribute?
Descriptors must be in the class dictionary to work:
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#implementing-descriptors
I suppose, you could want some container class of
Juan Arrivillaga added the comment:
Actually, couldn't the following be a workaround, just set the property on the
class after the class definition:
import dataclasses
import typing
@dataclasses.dataclass
class FileObject:
uploaded_by:typing.Optional[None]=None
Juan Arrivillaga added the comment:
So, after glancing at the source code:
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/ce54519aa09772f4173b8c17410ed77e403f3ebf/Lib/dataclasses.py#L869
During this processing of fields, couldn't you just special case
property/descriptor objects?
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