From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:59:43 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=03acba6f1a851064ba1fa78965ece4354d499c04;p=python bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) --- diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst index 324625d7b3..6928917dbe 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