Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes: > > > I honestly don't follow that sentence. But __doc__ is special because of its > use; documenting how to use of an object. In this case when you call > something like help() on an instance of an object it skips the instance's > value for __doc__ and goes straight to the defining class and stops there as > you don't care how a subclass says to use itself as that is not what you are > working with.
I don't really understand how this explains the read-only __doc__. I am talking about modifying __doc__ on a class, not on an instance. (sure, a new-style class is also an instance of type, but still...) Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
