From 910a66566af5ed63cd1fbabd2d4db2569659ef14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:57:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fix description of super() behavior on descriptors --- Doc/howto/descriptor.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst index cc1b78d6357..a0c698899b7 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ The important points to remember are: The object returned by ``super()`` also has a custom :meth:`__getattribute__` method for invoking descriptors. The call ``super(B, obj).m()`` searches ``obj.__class__.__mro__`` for the base class ``A`` immediately following ``B`` -and then returns ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, A)``. If not a descriptor, +and then returns ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, B)``. If not a descriptor, ``m`` is returned unchanged. If not in the dictionary, ``m`` reverts to a search using :meth:`object.__getattribute__`.