Attribute Access and Descriptors

Abstract

In Chapter X it was stated that attribute access calls get transformed into descriptor calls, but it was not stated how. The simple answer is that __getattribute__() does it, but there’s more to it than that, so this answer is also entirely insufficient. This simplification is helpful, since it tells you that, if you want to customize __getattribute__() and have it continue working with descriptors, you need it to delegate to the default implementation with super()