[issue46466] help function reads comments

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: That's not a bug. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pydoc.html "If there is no docstring, pydoc tries to obtain a description from the block of comment lines just above the definition of the class, function or method in the source file, or at the top of

[issue46466] help function reads comments

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[issue46466] help function reads comments

New submission from David Mc Dougall : My inline comment ('#') got picked up by the help command. Write the following code to a file (I named it "reproducer.py"): """ class Foo: # Hello docstring, I'm a '#' comment! def bar(self): pass assert Foo.bar.__doc__ is None