[Python-Dev] readonly __doc__
ssteinerX@gmail.com
ssteinerx at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 21:48:36 CEST 2009
On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow
> inheritance rules.
>
> Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs.
> Sure, go for it.
Filed: http://bugs.python.org/issue7186
>
> Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it
> not normal because it isn't?
>
>
> I honestly don't follow that sentence.
It means, is it special because it's a "special" i.e. __X__ type
attribute or because of something special about __doc__ itself,
independent of it being a "special attribute".
> But __doc__ is special because of its use; documenting how to use of
> an object. In this case when you call something like help() on an
> instance of an object it skips the instance's value for __doc__ and
> goes straight to the defining class and stops there as you don't
> care how a subclass says to use itself as that is not what you are
> working with.
>
> Any others that deserve special notice, while we're at it?
>
> Don't know.
Ok, issue recorded.
Thanks,
S
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