[Python-ideas] Dynamic getting of __doc__ of a function
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sun Oct 7 18:52:31 EDT 2018
On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 06:17:47PM +0200, Marko Ristin-Kaufmann wrote:
> Hi,
> @Jonathan: thanks! I'll have a look at your links.
>
> So there are actually two issues if I understand correctly:
> * help() ignoring the property getter when invoked on an instance
Not just the property getter, but if you set instance.__doc__ to a
string, help ignores that string too.
> * built-in class function ignoring the property getter (some_func.__doc__
> set to a property returns the property instead of invoking the getter)
Not just functions, it is all instances. Properties are only invoked if
they are on the class object, not the instance.
py> class X:
... pass
...
py> x = X()
py> x.spam = property(lambda self: "computed result")
py> x.spam
<property object at 0xb78b2d9c>
py> x.spam.__get__(x)
'computed result'
--
Steve
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