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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: how to inherit docstrings?
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:22:36 +1200
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Carl Banks wrote:

> x = random.choice([Triange(),Square()])
> print x.draw.__doc__  # prints "Draws a shape"
> 
> Quick, what shape is x.draw() going to draw?

Your debugging code is insufficient. It should include

    print type(x)

and then it will be obvious what shape is going to get
drawn.

-- 
Greg