January 2009
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Python instance descriptors: when class...
Python descriptors are great for customizing access to attributes on a class or instance. They are a big win for tasks like mapping Python objects to data from non-Python sources (such as SQL), since mapped attributes will need to be encoded/decoded and connected to other attributes in some way.
Below is a very simple descriptor; as you can see, accessing it from both the class and the instance...
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