[issue23990] Callable builtin doesn't respect descriptors
Ionel Cristian Mărieș
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Apr 20 10:43:14 CEST 2015
Ionel Cristian Mărieș added the comment:
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Raymond Hettinger <report at bugs.python.org>
wrote:
> AFAICT, there isn't a real problem here and the API for better-or-worse
> has proven to be usable in practice (the callable() API has been around
> practically forever and the descriptor protocol has been around since Py2.2
> -- if there were a real issue here, it would have reared it head long ago).
I think this is largely a product of misunderstanding the issue. As you
can see in the early comments in the thread, the fact that special methods
use descriptors is really really obscure.
Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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