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Sun Sep 22 20:34:56 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-September/128861.html

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Westley Martínez <anikom15 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Since help() is usually the first thing I use to remind myself of an
> API, it's imperative that the doc strings are up to date and make sense
> to end users.
>
> So, autogeneration of doc strings would be good for someone like me who
> hardly uses the html docs.
>

You seem to misunderstand the use of "autogeneration". It refers to
generating the .rst docs from the docstrings in the source. And FWIW, I'm
against that practice.

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