[Python-Dev] readonly __doc__
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Thu Oct 22 19:12:09 CEST 2009
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Speaking of the __doc__ property, I just noticed the following thing on py3k:
>
>>>> class C: pass
> ...
>>>> C.__doc__ = "hop"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable
>
> Is this deliberate?
Yes.
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