[New-bugs-announce] [issue16363] super cannot invoke descriptors

[Ronny Pfannschmidt]

New submission from Ronny Pfannschmidt:

this means its much harder to have a mixin to change the behaviour of a property

instead of super(Mixin, self).prop = foo

the code is super(Mixin, type(self)).prop.__set__(self, foo)
which is way harder to understand

the attached file demonstrates the problem and has a proof of concept for an extended super allowing descriptor invocations

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components: Interpreter Core
files: test_super.py
messages: 174184
nosy: Ronny.Pfannschmidt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: super cannot invoke descriptors
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27792/test_super.py

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