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[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:43:20 -0800
David Ascher wrote:
> May I suggest that you instead do:
> 
> >>> class MyClass:
> ...     def do_this(self):
> ...             "this function would do this"
> ...     def do_that(self):
> ...             "while this function would do that"
> ...
> >>>
> 
> and use the docstrings as a placeholder for the actions of the function
> -- typically something that's foremost in your mind when you're
> pseudocoding, and it counts as a statement as far as the parser's
> concerned (hence is syntactically valid), and at the same time, you've
> already got docstrings ready for  you when you start to implement.

Phil is trying to avoid having to backspace 4 times to delete a pass
statement.  Why the hell would he want to type in an entire docstring???


 ;)


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