Python Documentation Standards
Colin J. Williams
cjw at sympatico.ca
Fri Mar 17 17:45:11 EST 2006
Steven Bethard wrote:
> Colin J. Williams wrote:
>
>> Doc strings provide us with a great opportunity to illuminate our code.
>>
>> In the example below, __init__ refers us to the class's documentation,
>> but the class doc doesn't help much.
>
>
> It doesn't?
>
> >>> print list.__doc__
> list() -> new list
> list(sequence) -> new list initialized from sequence's items
>
> What is it you were hoping to see in constructor documentation?
>
> STeVe
You are right, I didn't dig far enough.
Colin W.
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