Antoon Pardon wrote: > Op 2005-02-28, Paul Rubin schreef <http>: >> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Can anyone explain why descriptors only work when they are an attribute >>> to an object or class. I think a lot of interesting things one can >>> do with descriptors would be just as interesting if the object stood >>> on itself instead of being an attribute to an other object. >> >> How would that work? > > Well AFAIU a descriptor is an object with at least one method out of > __get__, __set__ or __del__. I don see why implicitly calling one > of these methods would be any more difficult when they are autonomous > objects than when they are attributes.
I still don't see how that is supposed to work for "a lot of interesting things". Can you provide examples for one of these interesting things? -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
