On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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, it's not clear from the questions you're asking whether you've read the code in typobject.c that implements __doc__ or not. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
