[2.7] bpo-30709: Improve code example in Descriptor HowTo doc (GH-2339) (GH-2340)

(cherry picked from commit b066edfb1b268e90ea11f45dd1827f46d7ceec88)

diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index 493f6aed0e466c73e46939093feec6967cbc77ce..37ba6a8bfb60d828531c9e3c2fb200f2259c004f 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -258,10 +258,10 @@ to wrap access to the value attribute in a property data descriptor::
 
     class Cell(object):
         . . .
-        def getvalue(self, obj):
-            "Recalculate cell before returning value"
+        def getvalue(self):
+            "Recalculate the cell before returning value"
             self.recalc()
-            return obj._value
+            return self._value
         value = property(getvalue)