Paul Prescod: > Guido: > > Why are the string quotes needed? When are they useful? > When you haven't imported the thing you are asking about. It would be interesting if the quoted form allowed you to extract doc info from a module *without* having the side effect of importing it. This could no doubt be done for pure Python modules. Would be rather tricky for extension modules, though, I expect. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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