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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: how to inherit docstrings? |
| Date | 2011-06-09 23:59 -0400 |
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On 6/9/2011 9:12 PM, Carl Banks wrote: > Presumably, the reason you are overriding a method in a subclass is to change its behavior; I'd expect an inherited docstring to be inaccurate more often than not. So I'd be -1 on automatically inheriting them. > > However, I'd be +1 easily on a little help from the language to explicitly request to inherit the docstring. An empty docstring "" could be interpreted as 'ditto' ;-) It would be useless otherwise. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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Re: how to inherit docstrings? Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 18:12 -0700
Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 11:42 +1000
Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 20:37 -0600
Re: how to inherit docstrings? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-09 23:59 -0400
Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-10 09:48 +0000
Re: how to inherit docstrings? Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 22:41 -0600
Re: how to inherit docstrings? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-10 19:16 +1200
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