Raymond Hettinger added the comment: IMO nothing should change here (either the docs or the implementation).
The OP has observed an implementation detail of old-style classes (which were reimplemented in Python 2.2 using descriptor logic instead of their former hard-wired behaviors). ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18047> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com