Brett Cannon <brett <at> python.org> writes: > > > I honestly don't follow that sentence. 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. I don't really understand how this explains the read-only __doc__. I am talking about modifying __doc__ on a class, not on an instance. (sure, a new-style class is also an instance of type, but still...) Antoine.
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