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Reusing the Wheel

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Whenever possible and sensible, one should try to avoid reinventing the wheel. This chapter goes over a set of classes to use as superclasses and strategies to help build new descriptors a little faster. Only barebones code is presented here; the full code examples are in the library.

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Zimmerman, J. (2016). Reusing the Wheel. In: Python Descriptors. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2505-9_11

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