Inconsistent behavior of descriptors

[Michael Hudson]

"Denis S. Otkidach" <ods at strana.ru> writes:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, John Roth wrote:
> 
> JR> In particular, it's intended that instance attributes should
> JR> be ignored if there is a data descriptor (that is, a
> JR> descriptor
> JR> with both__get__ and __set__ methods.)
> 
> Is it documented somewhere? 

http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/descriptor-invocation.html

Cheers,
mwh

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