> Ionel Cristian Mărieș added the comment:
> Also, descriptors are a core mechanism in new-style classes - you can't
> have methods without descriptors. Why would you even consider removing
> descriptors from the special method lookup if that's part of the object
> model design?

Also, we are not changing anything here and we are not considering
removing descriptors from special method lookup.  This is the way it
has been for a long time for code that *checks* for special method
capability.  As RDM and I have both said, changing that would break
backward compatibility.  As I've already explained, I also think it is
wrong.