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Re: how to inherit docstrings?

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Date 2011-06-10 15:39 +1000
Subject Re: how to inherit docstrings?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.77.1307684379.11593.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> writes:
>
>> class Square(Shape):
>>     """ An equal-sided quadrilateral polygon. """
>
> That this docstring is imprecise (it describes any rhombus, not
> necessarily a square) is something I hope no-one else notices or draws
> attention to.

class Square(Number):
    """ A class designed to confuse the issue arbitrarily. """
    pass

Chris Angelico

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Re: how to inherit docstrings? Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 20:36 -0700
  Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 15:18 +1000
    Re: how to inherit docstrings? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 15:25 +1000
      Re: how to inherit docstrings? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 15:39 +1000
  Re: how to inherit docstrings? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-06-10 19:22 +1200
  Re: how to inherit docstrings? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-10 09:51 +0000

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