Docstrings and class Attributes

[John Pinner]

On Aug 9, 1:36 am, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> writes:
> > So if property docstrings are so hard to get to, what's the point in
> > having them?
>
> Why would you expect there be a special point to them?
>
> Men, like all primates of any sex, have nipples.
>
> Properties, like any function in Python, have docstrings.

So are you saying that men's nipples are pointless?

You could be correct, except in cold weather maybe.

John
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>
> They're an accident of the history that led to their implementation, and
> of the pre-existing parts that they're built from. There doesn't need to
> be a point to them (though they might be useful for reasons incidental
> for the reasons they exist).
>
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> Ben Finney