Re: how to inherit docstrings?

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Date	2011-06-09 17:31 -0600
Subject	Re: how to inherit docstrings?
From	Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
>
>> IMO, it shouldn't be necessary to explicitly copy docstrings around
>> like this in the first place. Either it should happen automatically,
>> or help() should be smart enough to look up the inheritance hierarchy
>> when given a method that doesn't have a docstring of its own.
>
> Since the docstrings are useful in more places than just ‘help’, I'm +1
> on having docstrings be automatically inherited if not specified.
>
> Would the OP like to propose this on ‘python-ideas’?
>

Yeah, I'll do that.  Thanks.

-eric

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Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-09 09:10 -0700
  Re: how to inherit docstrings? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-10 10:27 +1200
    Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 17:16 -0600
    Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 09:23 +1000
      Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 17:31 -0600

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