In article <mailman.6584.1391950328.18130.python-l...@python.org>,
bagrat lazaryan <bagra...@live.com> wrote:
> pep 257 -- docstring conventions, as well as a myriad of books and other
> resources, recommend documenting a function's or method's effect as a command
> ("do this", "return that"), not as a description ("does this", "returns
> that"). what's the logic behind this recommendation?
>
> bagratte
Methods are verbs, and should be described as such. If I had:
class Sheep:
def fly(self):
"Plummet to the ground."
I'm defining the action the verb performs. If, on the other hand, I had:
class Sheep:
def fly(self):
"Plummets to the ground"
I'm no longer describing the action of flying, I'm describing what the
sheep does when it attempts to perform that action.
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