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authorYury Selivanov <yselivanov@sprymix.com>2014-04-08 16:04:04 (GMT)
committerYury Selivanov <yselivanov@sprymix.com>2014-04-08 16:04:04 (GMT)
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docs: Document __objclass__. Closes #19281.
Initial patch by Nick Coghlan
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@@ -1467,6 +1467,14 @@ class' :attr:`__dict__`.
Called to delete the attribute on an instance *instance* of the owner class.
+The :attr:`__objclass__` is interpreted by the :mod:`inspect` module as
+specifying the class where this object was defined (setting this appropriately
+can assist in runtime introspection of dynamic class attributes). For callables,
+it may indicate that an instance of the given type (or a subclass) is expected
+or required as the first positional argument (for example, CPython sets this
+attribute for unbound methods that are implemented in C).
+
+
.. _descriptor-invocation:
Invoking Descriptors