[IPython-dev] instance docstring vs class docstring

[Ville M. Vainio]

On 5/8/07, Gael Varoquaux <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:

> This is not real the right mailing list to ask this question, but as it
> is ipython related I will go ahead...
>
> If I have a module with code like this:
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
> class A(object):
>     "A"
>     pass
>
> a = A()
>
> a.__doc__="a"
> +++++++++++++++++++
>
> and I import it in ipython.
>
> a? return the proper docstring (the instance's), but "help(a)" returns
> the class's docstring.

Why should we care so much about 'help', since we have ? and ??

?

As long as it doesn't crash...

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