On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, sstein...@gmail.com <sstein...@gmail.com
> wrote:
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow
inheritance rules.
Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs.
Sure, go for it.
Filed: http://bugs.python.org/issue7186
Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it
not normal because it isn't?
I honestly don't follow that sentence.
It means, is it special because it's a "special" i.e. __X__ type
attribute or because of something special about __doc__ itself,
independent of it being a "special attribute".
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.
Any others that deserve special notice, while we're at it?
Don't know.
Ok, issue recorded.
Thanks,
S
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