On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com > > wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow > inheritance rules. > > Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs. > Sure, go for it. Filed: http://bugs.python.org/issue7186 > > Is __doc__ not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it > not normal because it isn't? > > > I honestly don't follow that sentence. It means, is it special because it's a "special" i.e. __X__ type attribute or because of something special about __doc__ itself, independent of it being a "special attribute". > But __doc__ is special because of its use; documenting how to use of > an object. In this case when you call something like help() on an > instance of an object it skips the instance's value for __doc__ and > goes straight to the defining class and stops there as you don't > care how a subclass says to use itself as that is not what you are > working with. > > Any others that deserve special notice, while we're at it? > > Don't know. Ok, issue recorded. Thanks, S -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20091022/2a7823cc/attachment.htm>
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