[issue26052] pydoc for __init__ with not docstring

Irit Katriel added the comment: Is the "See help(type(self)) for accurate signature." part of object.__init__ docstring useful? May we can just remove it? -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker

[issue26052] pydoc for __init__ with not docstring

New submission from Antony Lee: For a class whose __init__ has no docstring, e.g. class C: def __init__(self, arg): pass pydoc outputs <... cropped ...> class C(builtins.object) | Methods defined here: | | __init__(self, arg) |

[issue26052] pydoc for __init__ with not docstring

Martin Panter added the comment: I suspect this the same side effect of 3.5’s doc string inheritance that I mentioned in Issue 15582. The solution proposed was basically “write a custom doc string”, though I’m not sure that is always appropriate. -- keywords: +3.5regression nosy: