Lazy Attribute

[Rouslan Korneychuk]

On 11/16/2012 02:49 AM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote:
>> If accessing the descriptor on the class object has no special
>> meaning, then the custom is to return the descriptor object itself, as
>> properties do.
>
> If I would satisfy this, I will be forced to check for None 99.9% of the use cases (it is not None, being applied to an object). Thus it behaves as designed.

That's not true. You can use a try-except block to return the descriptor 
object when an AttributeError is raised.