Documentation for Descriptors in the main docs

[raide]

BPO	966625
Nosy	@rhettinger, @devdanzin

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title = 'Documentation for Descriptors in the main docs'
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[raide]

It would be good to see something like:
http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm
included with the proper documentation.

[rhettinger]

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FWIW, I put much of this information in the Library
Reference Manual section 3.3.2, Customizing attribute access.

Being part of the technical reference, it is dry reading and
does not take a tutorial approach with overviews, examples,
and pure python equivalents.

[devdanzin]

Maybe we should close this in favor of bpo-1376292?

[rhettinger]

I'll check but much of this has been done already.