are docstrings for variables a bad idea?

[jelle]

Hi Diez,

please take note, this suggestion does not nessecarily apply to
programmers such as you & myself of course for whom any python code is
as transparant  as the API's we write ;')


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I feared that you meant that - but wasn't sure. This is one of the
often-requested-yet-they-will-never-come features of IDEs for python,
as
this would mean that you'd have type-information available on f.
Consider
this simple example:

f = someRandomlyInstatiatedObject()

Now what is e.g. f.<C-space> to show?
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why is this ambigious at all?
am i seriously overlooking something?

class jelle:
    def __init__(self):
        '''
        we've been having this for a while, just the helpful
constructor docstring
        '''
        '''relates drag to speed'''
        self.terribleNamedMethod = 'of a programmer i will not
disclose'

j = jelle() shows the proper docstring al'right....