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

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On 22 July 2015 at 14:21, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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>> 2. Is this useful, that you can think of, for anything other than connecting to Objective C?
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> Not immediately.  But then again, I initially thought that decorators would have limited appeal as well :-).  I guess this could be useful for other proxy-like objects as well, especially when preloading the __dict__ is relatively expensive.
>

I think one place this could be immediately useful is in code using
remote method invocation/remote attribute access. This allows one to
subclass proxy types for remote objects, and call methods that resolve
remotely in a seamless way.
(And without having to download and pre-populate an entire API into
the proxy-class __dict__)

+1
I found the solution rather concise for the flexibility it adds as well.
> Apart from direct usefulness this closes a hole in the way you can influence attribute lookup.
>
> Ronald