inherit without calling parent class constructor?

[Steven Bethard]

Christian Dieterich wrote:
> On Dé Céadaoin, Ean 26, 2005, at 13:45 America/Chicago, Steven Bethard 
> wrote:
> 
>> Note that:
>>     @deco
>>     def func(...):
>>         ...
>> is basically just syntactic sugar for:
>>     def func(...):
>>         ...
>>     func = deco(func)
> 
> 
> Oh, I learned something new today :-) Nice thing to know, these 
> descriptors.

Just a note of clarification:

The @deco syntax is called *decorator* syntax.
Classes with a __get__ method are called *descriptors*.

But yes, they're both nice things to know. ;)

Steve