[Python-Dev] slots, properties, descriptors, and pydoc

[Guido van Rossum]

> >     3) extend the __slots__ handler to set the descriptor's doc string 
> > to dictionary values if the slot's value is a dictionary.
> 
> I haven't implemented this, because I don't know a thing about Python's 
> C interface.  If someone more able would knock off a prototype, I would 
> be grateful.

If I understand this proposal correctly (the dict values would provide
the docstrings for the slots) I'd rather not make this default
behavior; different metaclasses may want to use the dict value for
different purposes, and subsuming it by default for the doc string
would make that harder to do.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)