From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 06:12:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) (GH-15576) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0b4~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f3dca6acee609a3a12f22152fd98602c1cbadde0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) (GH-15576) (cherry picked from commit 03acba6f1a851064ba1fa78965ece4354d499c04) Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger --- diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst index b29e590b20cb..9856e6caec09 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The important points to remember are: * non-data descriptors may be overridden by instance dictionaries. The object returned by ``super()`` also has a custom :meth:`__getattribute__` -method for invoking descriptors. The call ``super(B, obj).m()`` searches +method for invoking descriptors. The attribute lookup ``super(B, obj).m`` searches ``obj.__class__.__mro__`` for the base class ``A`` immediately following ``B`` and then returns ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, B)``. If not a descriptor, ``m`` is returned unchanged. If not in the dictionary, ``m`` reverts to a