From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:28:45 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Issue 10988: fix description of super's descriptor call. X-Git-Tag: v3.2.1b1~232^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b199b2262cb37235447b9ab88e6479e227004d3c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue 10988: fix description of super's descriptor call. --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index dca01dea9d30..25274caf6648 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1419,7 +1419,7 @@ Super Binding If ``a`` is an instance of :class:`super`, then the binding ``super(B, obj).m()`` searches ``obj.__class__.__mro__`` for the base class ``A`` immediately preceding ``B`` and then invokes the descriptor with the call: - ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, A)``. + ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, obj.__class__)``. For instance bindings, the precedence of descriptor invocation depends on the which descriptor methods are defined. A descriptor can define any combination