docstrings

[François Pinard]

Ben Wolfson <rumjuggler at home.com> writes:

> is there a way to use %c and %s within a docstring, or to add strings
> together in a docstring, so that if some strings are used in all
> docstrings, but might be changed, I can simply change one or two
> variables?

You could merely write docstrings as formats, using %(VARIABLE)s notation.
Then, whenever you want to process it, just use __doc__ % locals(), or
more generally __doc__ % DICTIONARY, with a suitable DICTIONARY.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard