On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 08:07:25PM +0300, Alexey Volobuev wrote: > Hi! > > Sometimes you have to put docstrings in stub files e.g. when using code > generation. In that case, stubs are the only place you can locate "objects" > to add docstrings to. > > Thus it is frustrating to find that docstring-related software generally > tends to ignore the presence of docstrings in stubs or to work incorrectly > with those.
It is not clear to me whether you are talking about dynamic tools that operate on the objects themselves, like `help()` and `inspect.getdoc()`, or static analysis tools that are expecting to work with source code. Can you elaborate on the nature of the problem and your recommended solution? -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/PQEA2CAHBFJPKANM5IQHKNCEOLISFTPF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/