Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed-fusi2.netcologne.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: __doc__ immutable for classes (was: Re: how to inherit docstrings?)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:31:17 +1200
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <95dvi9Fq9nU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <mailman.65.1307662177.11593.python-list@python.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net lMLUH6aJX8UvFIwxDLEmaQ417630ZxQntG7gJuyAPdyHngVEVq
Cancel-Lock: sha1:UTZaCVqlxVJAlyYaA1YYJRMf6z0=
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <mailman.65.1307662177.11593.python-list@python.org>
Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:7362

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