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| author | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-08-29 05:59:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-08-29 05:59:43 (GMT) |
| commit | 03acba6f1a851064ba1fa78965ece4354d499c04 (patch) | |
| tree | 83b9a8bd3eeb6fddab91911268a2ec635abae844 /Doc/howto | |
| parent | 3aa48b88c7485aca1fdfa54b3d8e53931ff067fd (diff) | |
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bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573)
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst index 324625d..6928917 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The important points to remember are: * non-data descriptors may be overridden by instance dictionaries. The object returned by ``super()`` also has a custom :meth:`__getattribute__` -method for invoking descriptors. The call ``super(B, obj).m()`` searches +method for invoking descriptors. The attribute lookup ``super(B, obj).m`` searches ``obj.__class__.__mro__`` for the base class ``A`` immediately following ``B`` and then returns ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, B)``. If not a descriptor, ``m`` is returned unchanged. If not in the dictionary, ``m`` reverts to a |