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Re: Function docstring as a local variable

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Subject Re: Function docstring as a local variable
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Excerpts from Colin J. Williams's message of Sun Jul 10 18:28:15 -0400 2011:
> Try:
> 
> def f():
>       ds= """docstring"""
>       print ds

That doesn't actually make a docstring, though. It makes a string object and
points the name ds at it. Do you know what a docstring is?

def foo():
    """I am a docstring"""
    pass

def bar():
    ds = "I am not a docstring!"

def baz():
    "I am a docstring too!"
    pass

def qux():
    'And even me! Quote type don't matter (besides style)'
     pass
-- 
Corey Richardson
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Function docstring as a local variable Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> - 2011-07-10 09:41 -0800
  Re: Function docstring as a local variable rantingrick <rantingrick@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 10:44 -0700
    Re: Function docstring as a local variable "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2011-07-10 18:28 -0400
      Re: Function docstring as a local variable Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-11 09:48 +1000
    Re: Function docstring as a local variable Corey Richardson <kb1pkl@aim.com> - 2011-07-10 19:00 -0400
      Re: Function docstring as a local variable Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-11 11:54 +1000
      Re: Function docstring as a local variable alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 21:05 -0700

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