R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: What is happening here is that when __doc__ is looked up, it is found first among the attributes of the class type. __doc__ is special, and types define it to be None if it not set to anything specific. So the docstring for an instance of a subclass of property is None, or the docstring of the subclass if one is provided. The other property attributes aren't affected since they aren't "special" attributes on types, and so get looked up on the base class as expected.
I believe the fix is to have property's __init__ check to see if it is dealing with a subclass, and if so to insert the __doc__ string into the instance's __dict__. Patch attached. Needs review, especially since I'm new to internals stuff. ---------- assignee: -> r.david.murray components: +Interpreter Core keywords: +needs review, patch nosy: +r.david.murray priority: -> normal stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13831/issue5890.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5890> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
