[issue23900] Add a default docstring to Enum subclasses

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: May be don't add __doc__ if sys.flags.optimize >= 2? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue23900] Add a default docstring to Enum subclasses

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 684aadcabcc7 by Ethan Furman in branch 'default': Close issue23900: add default __doc__ to new enumerations that do not specify one. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/684aadcabcc7 -- nosy: +python-dev resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patc

[issue23900] Add a default docstring to Enum subclasses

Ethan Furman added the comment: We could do something like: 'An enumeration.' and perhaps even something like: 'An enumeration based on .' It's not much, but is better than the obviously wrong generic version. -- assignee: -> ethan.furman ___ Pyt

[issue23900] Add a default docstring to Enum subclasses

New submission from Nick Coghlan: Issue #15582 added docstring inheritance to the inspect module. This means that Enum subclasses without their own docstring now inherit the generic docstring from the base class definition: >>> import enum, inspect >>> class MyEnum(enum.Enum): ... a = 1 ...