On 09/11/2017 07:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I still don't follow. How does one use InstanceDescriptor?
If you write a class that inherits from InstanceDescriptor and supports
the descriptor protocol, module objects will call the descriptor
protocol functions when that object is accessed inside a module instance.
Example: if this is "module.py":
import collections.abc
class CustomInstanceProperty(collections.abc.InstanceDescriptor):
def __get__(self, instance, owner):
print("CustomInstanceProperty.__get__ called!")
return 44
cip = CustomInstanceProperty()
If you then "import module" and reference "module.cip", it'll print
"CustomInstanceProperty.__get__ called!" and you'll get the value 44.
All three magic methods for descriptors work fine.
(BTW, I didn't know the best way to make this work. I wound up
implementing InstanceDescriptor by copying-and-pasting
PyBaseObject_Type, setting the special tp_flag, and ensuring the special
flag gets propagated to subclasses in inherit_special(). If there's a
better way to do it I'd happily improve the implementation.)
Is this still about modules, or is it a generalization of properties
for non-module instances? (If it is specific to modules, why doesn't
it have "module" in its name? Or if it's not, why is it in this
discussion?)
It's a generalization of supporting descriptors for instances, but
currently it's only supported by modules. It's opt-in and modules are
the only class doing so.
The prototype is linked to from the PEP; for your convenience
here's a link:
https://github.com/larryhastings/cpython/tree/module-properties
<https://github.com/larryhastings/cpython/tree/module-properties>
I found that link in the PEP, but it's just a branch of a fork of
cpython. It would be easier to review the prototype as a PR to
upstream cpython.
Okay, I'll make a PR tomorrow and post a reply here (and update the PEP).
//arry/
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