getting special from type, not instance (was Re: [Python-Dev] copy confusion)

[Alex Martelli]

On 2005 Jan 13, at 18:02, Guido van Rossum wrote:
    ...
>> In all cases, I'm +1 on seeing built-in method objects 
>> (PyMethodDescr_Type)
>> become data descriptors ("classy descriptors?" :-).
>
> Let's do override descriptors.

A Pronouncement!!!

> And please, someone fix copy.py in 2.3 and 2.4.

Sure -- what way, though?  The way I proposed in my last post about it?


Alex