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Re: module attributes and docstrings

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On 3/24/2015 4:55 AM, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> Reading PEP 257 and 258 I got the impression that I could document
> module attributes and these would be available in the __doc__
> attribute of the object.
>
> So things like the one below are something I got used to do, but that
> don't work after all, as I learned today:
>
>      value_factory = lambda _, row: row[0]
>      """Row factory. To be used with single-column queries."""
>
> There are other things I could possibly do, like turning that lambda
> into a function,

You have discovered one of advantages of a def statement over a 
name=lambda assignment statement.  In Python, there is no good reason to 
use the latter form and PEP 8 specifically discourages it: "Always use a 
def statement instead of an assignment statement that binds a lambda 
expression directly to an identifier."

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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module attributes and docstrings Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-24 09:55 +0100
  Re: module attributes and docstrings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-24 21:29 +1100
  Re: module attributes and docstrings Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-24 22:49 +1100
    Re: module attributes and docstrings Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-26 10:48 +0100
      Re: module attributes and docstrings Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-03-27 18:31 +1100
        Re: module attributes and docstrings Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-03-27 09:49 +0200
  Re: module attributes and docstrings Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-03-24 15:33 -0400
    Re: module attributes and docstrings Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-03-26 10:53 +0100
      Re: module attributes and docstrings Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-26 21:27 +1100

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