Doc strings in descriptors

Дамјан Георгиевски gdamjan at gmail.com
Sun May 3 19:58:19 EDT 2009


> I have a simple descriptor to create a cached property as shown below.
...
> The problem is that when I use the help() function on them, I don't
> get the doc string from the function that is being wrapped. 
...
> What do I need to do to get the doc string of the wrapped function to
> apper when using help()?

take a look at
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/decorator
and possibly 
http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#functools.update_wrapper


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