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authorAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-10-30 14:22:11 (GMT)
committerAndrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2001-10-30 14:22:11 (GMT)
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Corrections noted by Michael McLay
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex8
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
index cc1be3f..b849cc9 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
@@ -222,10 +222,10 @@ actually performs are:
\begin{verbatim}
descriptor = obj.__class__.x
-descriptor.get(obj)
+descriptor.__get__(obj)
\end{verbatim}
-For methods, \method{descriptor.get} returns a temporary object that's
+For methods, \method{descriptor.__get__} returns a temporary object that's
callable, and wraps up the instance and the method to be called on it.
This is also why static methods and class methods are now possible;
they have descriptors that wrap up just the method, or the method and
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@ The author would like to thank the following people for offering
suggestions, corrections and assistance with various drafts of this
article: Fred Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr.,
Carel Fellinger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Michael Hudson, Jack Jansen,
-Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Fredrik Lundh, Tim Peters, Jens Quade, Tom Reinhardt,
-Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
+Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Fredrik Lundh, Michael McLay, Tim Peters, Jens
+Quade, Tom Reinhardt, Neil Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum.
\end{document}