"Phillip J. Eby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unfortunately, finding out a descriptor's name is non-trivial; it'd be nice
> if there were a descriptor hook __bind__(cls,name) that was called by
> classes during cls.__new__ or assignment to a class attribute, and which
> you could define to return a replacement descriptor. It seems like one of
> the first metaclasses I end up writing in any new project is something to
> do this, and I believe Ian Bicking has encountered the same thing in e.g.
> SQLObject.
I've done this many times too, but I've never really felt the need to
propose a change to Python for it. I guess one could modify the
descriptor protocol slightly, but is it worth it? Hmm, dunno.
Cheers,
mwh
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