I'm in the process of doing some dynamic documentation with a series of functions. 1. I tried using a .format() method on the doc string, and it just plain didn't work -- to the point that function.__doc__ was not set at all. 2. I tried dynamically appending the dynamic portion of the documentation using function.__doc__ += DYNAMIC_DOC, and it works when run, but Pylint complains E:000, 0: Function 'function' has no '__doc__' member (no-member) Yet, a dir(function) shows that there is indeed a __doc__ attribute. I know this is a little unusual, but I'm trying to maintain a REST application with lots of endpoints and some really silly non-harmonious parameter --and no one available to fix the nightmare in the calling packages! So, it runs. Would a Pylint developer look to see if Pylint is wrong about what a function has in the way of members?