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Re: how to inherit docstrings?

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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:44:32 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable
> >>
> >> That is on 3.3.
> > 
> > Well, that sucks :-(
> > 
> > Where can we see the discussion of that change before it was
> > implemented?
>
> It goes back to Python 2.2, when new style classes were first introduced.
[…]

> It's an unnecessary restriction, as far as I'm concerned, but an old one.

Well, it's incompatible with the Python compiler I keep in my head. Have
these developers no consideration for backward-thinking-compatibility?

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Ben Finney

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how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 00:22 -0600
  Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-09 16:37 +1000
    Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 01:13 -0600
      Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-09 17:44 +1000
        Re: how to inherit docstrings? Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-09 11:23 +0000
        Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-09 14:56 +0000
          Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 07:33 +1000
            Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-10 09:25 +0000
  Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-10 16:47 +0000
    Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 11:01 -0600
      Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-10 17:27 +0000
        Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 12:48 -0600
    Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-10 17:19 +0000

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