"help( pi )"

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Nov 17 16:57:27 EST 2017


On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> It *could* be made to work:
>
>     import math
>
>     class PI(float):
>
>         __doc__ =  "The circle constant (Note: tau is better :-)"
>
>     math.pi = PI(math.pi)
>
>     print(math.pi)
>     help(math.pi)

How is THAT an improvement? Docstrings aren't supposed to give false
information!

*diving for cover*

ChrisA



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