Chris Jerdonek added the comment:

So (a) there is precedent for multiple signatures in docstrings

For the record, this is also true of 2.7: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/15fd0b4496e0/Objects/bytearrayobject.c#l28... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14783> _______________________________________