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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: __doc__ immutable for classes (was: Re: how to inherit docstrings?) |
| Date | 2011-06-10 19:31 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <95dvi9Fq9nU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <mailman.65.1307662177.11593.python-list@python.org> |
Eric Snow wrote: > But for "method" objects (really a wrapper for > bound functions) would it change the __doc__ of the wrapper or of the > bound function? You probably wouldn't want to change the __doc__ of a method wrapper; instead you'd make sure you got hold of the underlying function first. So __doc__ on method wrappers should probably remain read-only to avoid surprises. -- Greg
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__doc__ immutable for classes (was: Re: how to inherit docstrings?) Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 17:29 -0600
Re: __doc__ immutable for classes (was: Re: how to inherit docstrings?) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-10 19:31 +1200
Re: __doc__ immutable for classes Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-10 21:17 -0400
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