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From: "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca>
Subject: Re: Function docstring as a local variable
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 18:28:15 -0400
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On 10-Jul-11 13:44 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jul 10, 12:41 pm, Tim Johnson<t...@johnsons-web.com>  wrote:
>> It possible for a function to print it's own docstring?
>
> def f():
>     """docstring"""
>     print "docstring"
>
> any questions?

Try:

def f():
      ds= """docstring"""
      print ds
 >

Colin W.