Set Name Method of the Descriptor Protocol
Learn about the set name method of the descriptor protocol.
Signature of the __set_name__
method
This is a relatively new method that was added in Python 3.6, and it has this structure:
__set_name__(self, owner, name)
When we create the descriptor
object in the class that is going to use it, we generally need the descriptor
to know the name of the attribute it is going to be handling. This attribute name is the one we use to read from and write to __dict__
in the __ get__
and __set__
methods, respectively. ...