For all us who are new to programming, it should be pointed out in the documentation that a double underscore is needed to get the docstring:

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function_name.__doc__ <--- double underscores Have you seen this come up a lot in forums, lists, etc? Because to me

On 09/12/2012 12:32 PM, Paul Fallon wrote: the double underscore seems much longer than a single underscore making it obvious to me that I need two instead of one.

For all us who are new to programming, it should be pointed out in the documentation that a double underscore is needed to get the docstring:

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function_name.__doc__ <--- double underscores Have you seen this come up a lot in forums, lists, etc? Because to me

On 09/12/2012 12:32 PM, Paul Fallon wrote: the double underscore seems much longer than a single underscore making it obvious to me that I need two instead of one.