PROPOSAL: [].__doc__, "".__doc__, ...

Gerrit Holl gerrit.holl at pobox.com
Tue Feb 22 14:52:00 EST 2000


<quote name="François Pinard" date="951154699">
> Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > I think it would be a nice feature for all types with methods to have
> > docstrings describing the methods, so [].__doc__ would be a string with
> > the descripion of .index, .append... etc.
> 
> It already works, at least partly:
> 
>    >>> print [].append.__doc__
>    L.append(object) -- append object to end

I know.

> Still, `print [].__doc__' raises an exception.

I know. That's what I mean :)

regards,
Gerrit.

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