Confusion about decorators

[Henrik Faber]

On 12.12.2011 14:45, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:

>> Can someone please enlighten me?
> 
> You can (need to?) use the descriptor protocol to deal with methods.
>
> from functools import partial
[...]
>        def __get__(self, obj, objtype):
>                return partial(self, obj)

Whoa. This is absolutely fantastic, it now works as expected (I get a
reference to "self").

I am very amazed -- I've been programming Python for about 5 years now
and have never even come close to something as a "descriptor protocol".
Python never ceases to amaze me. Do you have any beginners guide how
this works? The Pydoc ("Data Model") is comprehensive, but I really
don't know where to start to look.

Still amazed!

Best regards,
Henrik