[docs] Documentation Strings

Mike Hoy mike at saguaroscuba.com
Sat Sep 29 16:56:18 CEST 2012


On 09/12/2012 12:32 PM, Paul Fallon wrote:
> 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:
> >>>function_name.__doc__ <--- double underscores
Have you seen this come up a lot in forums, lists, etc? Because to me 
the double underscore seems much longer than a single underscore making 
it obvious to me that I need two instead of one.


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