> Speaking of the __doc__ property, I just noticed the following thing on > py3k: > >>>> class C: pass > ... >>>> C.__doc__ = "hop" > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable
Happens also with new style classes in python 2.x: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 30 2007, 13:45:26) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> class C(object): pass ... >>> C.__doc__ = 'hello' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable >>> But not with old style classes: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 30 2007, 13:45:26) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> class C: pass ... >>> C.__doc__ = 'hello' >>> Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
