[New-bugs-announce] [issue40587] [regression] inspect.getdoc not returning docstring.

[Matthias Bussonnier]

New submission from Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com>:

In python 3.8:

```
>>> class A(object):
...     """standard docstring"""
...     pass
...
>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.getdoc(A())
'standard docstring'
```

In 3.9:

```
$ python
Python 3.9.0a6+ (heads/master:5b956ca42d, May 10 2020, 20:31:26)
[Clang 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.39.2)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class A(object):
KeyboardInterrupt
>>> class A(object):
...     """standard docstring"""
...     pass
...
>>> import inspect
>>> inspect.getdoc(A())
>>>
```

----------
messages: 368603
nosy: mbussonn
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: [regression] inspect.getdoc not returning docstring.

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