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Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:41:21 -0800
From: Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
To: Python ML <python-list@python.org>
Subject: Function docstring as a local variable
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Consider the following:
## code
def test():
    """This is my docstring"""
    print(??)  ## can I print the docstring above?
## /code
It possible for a function to print it's own docstring?

thanks
(pointers to docs could be sufficient)
-- 
Tim 
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