Nick Coghlan added the comment: The current behaviour is broken for *any* descriptor which doesn't return itself when retrieved from the class. It just so happens that all the *other* descriptors in the standard library work that way, so it doesn't matter if you retrieve them directly from __dict__ or retrieve them with getattr - you'll get the descriptor object either way.
So we should be calling getattr first, and always taking __doc__ (if any) from the returned object. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19030> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
