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From: Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
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Subject: Re: how to inherit docstrings?
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Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> writes:

> Presumably, the reason you are overriding a method in a subclass is to
> change its behavior; I'd expect an inherited docstring to be
> inaccurate more often than not.

In which case the onus is on the programmer implementing different
behaviour to also override the docstring.

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