[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset f3dca6acee609a3a12f22152fd98602c1cbadde0 by Raymond Hettinger (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.8': bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) (GH-15576) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f3dca6acee609a3a12f22152fd9

[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

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[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

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[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: New changeset 03acba6f1a851064ba1fa78965ece4354d499c04 by Raymond Hettinger in branch 'master': bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/03acba6f1a851064ba1fa78965ece4354d499c04 -- ___

[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

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[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

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[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

Martin Panter added the comment: Similar change needed for . There, it uses the noun “binding”, which seems an appropriate description of the action. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

Martin Panter added the comment: Agreed. The same problem is also present in the Python 3 documentation. (Beware there is another report somewhere about updating this how-to more generally for Python 3.) Maybe we could be more explicit and start off “The attribute lookup super(B, obj).m searc

[issue25777] Misleading descriptions in docs about invoking descriptors.

New submission from Juchen Zeng: [Doc Link](https://docs.python.org/2/howto/descriptor.html#invoking-descriptors) In descriptions about how to invoke descriptors with super(), it says: The call super(B, obj).m() searches obj.__class__.__mro__ for the base class A immediately following B an