Integers have docstring for int()

[Skip Montanaro]

    Andrew> I accidentally discovered that all the basic types in Python
    Andrew> have docstrings that describe the functions to create them. For
    Andrew> integers, you get:
    ...

    Andrew> This seems a little unexpected to me; is there any particular
    Andrew> reason for this behaviour?

Why should this be unexpected?  If you execute

    print int.__doc__

you get its docstring.  Since the __doc__ attribute is attached to the class
it will be found when the search starts at an instance of the class as well.

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