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Put very simply, a descriptor is a class that can be used to call a method with simple attribute access, but there's obviously more to it than that. It's difficult to explain beyond that without digging a little into how descriptors implemented. So, here's a high-level view of the descriptor protocol.
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Zimmerman, J. (2018). What Is a Descriptor?. In: Python Descriptors. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3727-4_1
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