Why this doesn't work?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

mk a écrit :
> John Posner wrote:
>>> a
>>> False
>>>
>>> I expected to see 'nostatget' output: nostat.__get__ = nostatget
>>> obviously failed to replace this function's __get__ method.
>>
>> I don't quite understand the above sentence, so I'm assuming that you 
>> wanted the final "is" test to be "True" instead of "False".
> 
> No. I should have described my goal in plain English in first place.
> 
> I wanted to replace nostat function's __get__ descriptor

A "descriptor" (shortcut for "object implementing the descriptor 
protocol) is an object that have a __get__ method - not the __get__ 
method itself. A function is a descriptor. The __get__ method of the 
function type is a method, and methods are not descriptors.

> with a function 
> that would allow me to peek inside it (i.e. into __get__ descriptor 
> arguments)

=>  __get__(self, instance, cls=None)

When called as a result of a look up on an instance f of class Foo, 
nostat.__get__ will get (nostat, f, Foo) as args.

> So no, I expected it to be false, that is, I expected to replace 
> original descriptor with a "custom" descriptor.

s/descriptor/__get__/

Anyway: these types (function, method etc) are implemented in (higly 
optimized) C, and with a lot of restriction for both performance and 
sanity reasons. It's a case of practicality beats purity.

Another - perhaps more rewarding - exercise might be to implement a 
custom callable type that implements the descriptor protocol the same 
way the function do.