bpo-38255: super() can search attributes as well as methods (GH-16368)
Improvement suggested by Géry Ogam.
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 4d3b2f5..28d9c7b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1637,6 +1637,10 @@
super().method(arg) # This does the same thing as:
# super(C, self).method(arg)
+ In addition to method lookups, :func:`super` also works for attribute
+ lookups. One possible use case for this is calling :term:`descriptor`\s
+ in a parent or sibling class.
+
Note that :func:`super` is implemented as part of the binding process for
explicit dotted attribute lookups such as ``super().__getitem__(name)``.
It does so by implementing its own :meth:`__getattribute__` method for searching