PROPOSAL: [].__doc__, "".__doc__, ...

François Pinard pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon Feb 21 18:38:19 EST 2000


Gerrit Holl <gerrit.holl at pobox.com> writes:

> I think it would be a nice feature for all types with methods to have
> docstrings describing the methods, so [].__doc__ would be a string with
> the descripion of .index, .append... etc.

It already works, at least partly:

   >>> print [].append.__doc__
   L.append(object) -- append object to end

Still, `print [].__doc__' raises an exception.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard






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