[Python-ideas] The Descriptor Protocol...

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Martin Chilvers
<martin.chilvers at gmail.com> wrote:
> G'day,
>
> On 02/03/2011 17:59, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> It never occurred to me to think of the descriptor protocol the way
>> you do, and it never even occurred to me to that the key would ever be
>> needed. You can invoke principles of information flow until you're
>> blue in the face, but IMO it is totally reasonable to drop information
>> that has been used already as a request passes through layers of
>> abstraction.
>
> True, but in this case the 'droppage' ;^) is at the first layer of
> abstraction and the first hook point...
>
>> FWIW, rhetorical questions like "why doesn't Python do X"
>> are usually a poor way to start a discussion about a feature request.
>
> Which is why my original post started with:-
>
> "Please excuse me if I have missed something obvious, but I have a question
> about the implementation of the descriptor protocol, and more specifically
> about the arguments passed to the '__get__' and '__set__' methods."
>
> and finished with:-
>
> "Again, apologies if I've missed the obvious"
>
> Which, I don't think, is confrontational in any way, and simply asked what I
> firmly believe is a legitimate question about the API.

Which has been answered, and yet you don't appear happy with the answer. :-)


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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)