extending method descriptors

[Michael Sliczniak]

Suppose I have this:

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb  6 2009, 19:02:12)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class A(object):
...     __slots__ = ('x', 'y')
...
>>> a = A()
>>> b = A()

So I am using descriptors (and I want to). I also would like to have
methods A.x.foo(), A.x.bar(), A.y.foo(), and A.y.bar() and my idea was
to extend member_descriptor, but it seems that I cannot:

>>> type(A.x)
<type 'member_descriptor'>
>>> class my_descriptor(type(A.x)):
...     def foo():
...             return 1
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases
    type 'member_descriptor' is not an acceptable base type

Is there some way, outside of using C, to be able to do what I want.
Yes I want a.x and b.x to be different, but type(a).x.foo(), type
(b).x.foo(), and A.x.foo() should all be the same. I have tried other
approaches and get exceptions of one flavor or another with everything
I have tried.

Thanks,
mzs