On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 8:10 AM Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > By way of correcting misconceptions: > > On 12/18/21 8:39 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > I'm not sure that this is actually possible the way you're doing it. > > The descriptor protocol (which is what makes properties work) won't > > apply when you're looking up statically. > > On 12/18/21 9:19 AM, Christopher Barker wrote: > > > > Anyway, the thing is that both staticmethod and property are implimented > using descriptors, which I think can only be > > invoked by instance attribute lookup. That is, the class attribute IS a > descriptor instance. > > While it is true that a descriptor does not get the chance to run its > `__set__` and `__delete__` methods when called on > the class, it does get to run its `__get__` method.
Ah, thanks for clarifying that. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/IGVYGUZKH3A2QBGHM4IIQGQ26TJRHTW6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
