bpo-25777: Wording describes a lookup, not a call (GH-15573) (GH-15576)
(cherry picked from commit 03acba6f1a851064ba1fa78965ece4354d499c04)
Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
index b29e590..9856e6c 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/descriptor.rst
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
* 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