bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) (GH-15576)

miss-islington · rhettinger · rhettinger · commit f3dca6acee60 · 2019-08-28T23:12:13.000-07:00
(cherry picked from commit 03acba6) Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The important points to remember are:
 * non-data descriptors may be overridden by instance dictionaries.
 
 The object returned by ``super()`` also has a custom :meth:`__getattribute__`
-method for invoking descriptors.  The call ``super(B, obj).m()`` searches
+method for invoking descriptors.  The attribute lookup ``super(B, obj).m`` searches
 ``obj.__class__.__mro__`` for the base class ``A`` immediately following ``B``
 and then returns ``A.__dict__['m'].__get__(obj, B)``.  If not a descriptor,
 ``m`` is returned unchanged.  If not in the dictionary, ``m`` reverts to a
