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29 Apr
2018
29 Apr
'18
5:45 p.m.
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Greg Ward wrote:
My impression of the use of docstrings in the Python world is that because they wind up in the runtime VM code, people tend to make them a lot terser,
Side note -- only docstrings which are the first statements in a class or function or module are kept -- everything else is thrown out currently. --david