Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:39:53 am Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>>> Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it
>>> not normal because it isn't?
>> I honestly don't follow that sentence. But __doc__ is special because
>> of its use; documenting how to use of
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:39:53 am Brett Cannon wrote:
> > Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it
> > not normal because it isn't?
>
> I honestly don't follow that sentence. But __doc__ is special because
> of its use; documenting how to use of an object. In this case whe
Le jeudi 22 octobre 2009 à 13:59 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> > I don't really understand how this explains the read-only __doc__.
> > I am talking about modifying __doc__ on a class, not on an instance.
> > (sure, a new-style class is also an instance of type, but still...)
>
> Antoine, it
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Brett Cannon python.org> writes:
>> I honestly don't follow that sentence. But __doc__ is special because of its
>> use; documenting how to use of an object. In this case when you call
>> something like help() on an instance of an object it
Brett Cannon python.org> writes:
>
>
> I honestly don't follow that sentence. But __doc__ is special because of its
> use; documenting how to use of an object. In this case when you call
> something like help() on an instance of an object it skips the instance's
> value for __doc__ and goes s
On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, sstein...@gmail.com > wrote:
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow
inheritance rules.
Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, sstein...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance
>> rules.
>>
>
> Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs.
>
>
Sure, go for it.
> Is __doc__
On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow
inheritance rules.
Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs.
Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it
not normal because it isn't?
Any o
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
..
> I might add why I was asking this question. I was trying to demonstrate the
> use
> of class decorators and the simplest example I found was to add a docstring to
> the class.
I always thought that read-only __doc__ was an artifact of n
Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance rules.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Guido van Rossum python.org> writes:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou pitrou.net>
> wrote:
>> >
>> > Speaking of the __doc__ property, I j
Guido van Rossum python.org> writes:
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou pitrou.net>
wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of the __doc__ property, I just noticed the following thing
on py3k:
> >
> class C: pass
> > ...
> C.__doc__ = "hop"
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Yes.
Why?
--yuv
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Speaking of the __doc__ property, I just noticed the following thing on py3k:
>
class C: pass
> ...
C.__doc__ = "hop"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' ob
> Speaking of the __doc__ property, I just noticed the following thing on
> py3k:
>
class C: pass
> ...
C.__doc__ = "hop"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in
> AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable
Happens also with new style clas
Speaking of the __doc__ property, I just noticed the following thing on py3k:
>>> class C: pass
...
>>> C.__doc__ = "hop"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable
Is this deliberate?
Antoine.
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