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Re: how to inherit docstrings?

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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’?

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Ben Finney

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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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