[issue23990] Callable builtin doesn't respect descriptors

[Ionel Cristian Mărieș]

Ionel Cristian Mărieș added the comment:

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Christian Heimes <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:

> You also haven't shown that this behavior violates the documentation and
> language spec.

​How can I show it violates the "spec" when there's not such thing? :-)
AFAIK, `callable` is not specified in any PEP. Please give some references
when you make such statements.

​[...] write a PEP and convince all implementors of Python implementations
> to change the current way callable() and other protocols like iter work.

`iter` works fine, as outlined above? Am I missing something? What other
protocols do you have in mind, wrt honoring descriptors?

Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro

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