[issue40257] Improve the use of __doc__ in pydoc

[Matthias Bussonnier]

Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias at gmail.com> added the comment:

This is going to potentially break a lot of interactive usage in the Scientific ecosystem. 

A a lot of people are going to do:

    df = load('my.csv')
    df??

To ask for help and will get nothing. 

Even for subclass, I want to argue that a docstring for a superclass is better than no docstring. 


This will be devastating for many users.

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nosy: +mbussonn

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