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author | Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-11-06 09:30:17 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-11-06 09:30:17 (GMT) |
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Minor grammar edits for the descriptor howto guide (GH-#23175)
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diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst index fedf8a8..8c2e8d5 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ different, updated answers each time:: Besides showing how descriptors can run computations, this example also reveals the purpose of the parameters to :meth:`__get__`. The *self* parameter is *size*, an instance of *DirectorySize*. The *obj* parameter is -either *g* or *s*, an instance of *Directory*. It is *obj* parameter that +either *g* or *s*, an instance of *Directory*. It is the *obj* parameter that lets the :meth:`__get__` method learn the target directory. The *objtype* parameter is the class *Directory*. @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ logged, but that the regular attribute *name* is not logged:: INFO:root:Accessing 'age' giving 40 40 -One major issue with this example is the private name *_age* is hardwired in +One major issue with this example is that the private name *_age* is hardwired in the *LoggedAgeAccess* class. That means that each instance can only have one logged attribute and that its name is unchangeable. In the next example, we'll fix that problem. @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ we'll fix that problem. Customized names ---------------- -When a class uses descriptors, it can inform each descriptor about what +When a class uses descriptors, it can inform each descriptor about which variable name was used. In this example, the :class:`Person` class has two descriptor instances, @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ be recorded, giving each descriptor its own *public_name* and *private_name*:: An interactive session shows that the :class:`Person` class has called :meth:`__set_name__` so that the field names would be recorded. Here -we call :func:`vars` to lookup the descriptor without triggering it:: +we call :func:`vars` to look up the descriptor without triggering it:: >>> vars(vars(Person)['name']) {'public_name': 'name', 'private_name': '_name'} @@ -614,8 +614,8 @@ Sometimes it is desirable for a descriptor to know what class variable name it was assigned to. When a new class is created, the :class:`type` metaclass scans the dictionary of the new class. If any of the entries are descriptors and if they define :meth:`__set_name__`, that method is called with two -arguments. The *owner* is the class where the descriptor is used, the *name* -is class variable the descriptor was assigned to. +arguments. The *owner* is the class where the descriptor is used, and the +*name* is the class variable the descriptor was assigned to. The implementation details are in :c:func:`type_new()` and :c:func:`set_names()` in :source:`Objects/typeobject.c`. @@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ Properties ---------- Calling :func:`property` is a succinct way of building a data descriptor that -triggers function calls upon access to an attribute. Its signature is:: +triggers a function call upon access to an attribute. Its signature is:: property(fget=None, fset=None, fdel=None, doc=None) -> property @@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ roughly equivalent to:: To support automatic creation of methods, functions include the :meth:`__get__` method for binding methods during attribute access. This -means that functions are non-data descriptors which return bound methods +means that functions are non-data descriptors that return bound methods during dotted lookup from an instance. Here's how it works:: class Function: @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ attributes stored in ``__slots__``:: class Immutable: - __slots__ = ('_dept', '_name') # Replace instance dictionary + __slots__ = ('_dept', '_name') # Replace the instance dictionary def __init__(self, dept, name): self._dept = dept # Store to private attribute @@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ by member descriptors:: The :meth:`type.__new__` method takes care of adding member objects to class variables. The :meth:`object.__new__` method takes care of creating instances -that have slots instead of a instance dictionary. Here is a rough equivalent +that have slots instead of an instance dictionary. Here is a rough equivalent in pure Python:: class Type(type): |