how to inherit docstrings?

[Ben Finney]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> writes:

> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:44:32 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >> AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable
> >>
> >> That is on 3.3.
> > 
> > Well, that sucks :-(
> > 
> > Where can we see the discussion of that change before it was
> > implemented?
>
> It goes back to Python 2.2, when new style classes were first introduced.
[…]

> It's an unnecessary restriction, as far as I'm concerned, but an old one.

Well, it's incompatible with the Python compiler I keep in my head. Have
these developers no consideration for backward-thinking-compatibility?

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