how to inherit docstrings?

[Ben Finney]

Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> IMO, it shouldn't be necessary to explicitly copy docstrings around
> like this in the first place. Either it should happen automatically,
> or help() should be smart enough to look up the inheritance hierarchy
> when given a method that doesn't have a docstring of its own.

Since the docstrings are useful in more places than just ‘help’, I'm +1
on having docstrings be automatically inherited if not specified.

Would the OP like to propose this on ‘python-ideas’?

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Ben Finney