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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-05-06 12:44:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-05-06 12:44:29 (GMT) |
| commit | 67a521ef69655044f771aa925b232b267936fea6 (patch) | |
| tree | 5717e8937e2dffdaac753374675324e92ff4ddcf | |
| parent | e143bbb61034396cd2d5c4ecaa4f313e62ea2a3e (diff) | |
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note that descriptor objects must be instances of new-style types
(closes SF bug #817742)
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex index 1daf18a..9cd7a4c 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref3.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref3.tex @@ -1296,7 +1296,8 @@ containing the method (a so-called \emph{descriptor} class) appears in the class dictionary of another new-style class, known as the \emph{owner} class. In the examples below, ``the attribute'' refers to the attribute whose name is the key of the property in the owner -class' \code{__dict__}. +class' \code{__dict__}. Descriptors can only be implemented as +new-style classes themselves. \begin{methoddesc}[object]{__get__}{self, instance, owner} Called to get the attribute of the owner class (class attribute access) |