original' attribute if it is invoked with an object. If it is invoked with None, it should return a false class-method emulator instead. For some reason, Python's documentation recommends to define descriptors' __get__ methods with the 'type' parameter as optional, despite the fact that Python itself never actually calls the descriptor that way. This is probably do to support 'foo.__get__(bar)' as an idiom. Let's make sure that the behavior is correct. Since we don't actually use the 'type' argument at all, this test calls it the idiomatic way to ensure that signature works; test_proxyInheritance verifies the how-Python-actually-calls-it signature. c