[Python-Dev] PEP 447 (type.__getdescriptor__)

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/22/2015 3:25 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another summer with another EuroPython, which means its time again to
> try to revive PEP 447…
>
> I’ve just pushes a minor update to the PEP and would like to get some
> feedback on this, arguably fairly esoteric, PEP.

Yeh, a bit too esoteric for most of us to review.  For instance, it is 
not obvious to me, not familiar with internal details, after reading the 
intro, why a custom __getattribute__ is not enough and why 
__getdescriptor__ would be needed. If Guido does not want to review 
this, you need to find a PEP BDFL for this.

There are two fairly obvious non-esoteric questions:

1. How does this impact speed (updated section needed)?

2. Is this useful, that you can think of, for anything other than 
connecting to Objective C?

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy