Ok. Can anyone suggest an unobtrusive way to set docstrings on slots?
Perhaps this (but how could it be implemented?):
class Foo(object): __slots__ = docslots( ('slot1': 'description'), ('slot2': """description ...continued """), 'slot3', )
Anything can be done using metaclasses. __slots__ is not special once the class exists -- it is a set of instructions for the default metaclass to create a specific set of descriptors (and associated storage). Another metaclass could use a different convention (although it may have to set __slots__ to let the base metaclass create the associated storage slots). --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)