"""" Thanks for the quick reply - I expanded it to a working program,
it seems to do the job and works in my actual code (always good). As
you said, it assumes the called function's class is already defined.
Is there a way around this? (The module was originally ordered
"top-down").
""""
class Cluster():
"""Cluster docs...
"""
def plot():
"""Cluster.plot docs..
"""
class ClusterSet():
"""ClusterSet docs...
"""
__doc__ += "extra" + Cluster.__doc__
def plot():
"""ClusterSet.plot docs..
"""
__doc__ += "this is not what we want, it \
only happens at runtime, and refers to a local
variable"
print("ClusterSet.plot body")
plot.__doc__ += "extra" + Cluster.plot.__doc__
cs=ClusterSet()
print(cs.__doc__)
print(cs.plot.__doc__)
On Mar 10, 7:30 am, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, bdb112 <boyd.blackw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A function of the class ClusterSet uses a similar function of the
> > class Cluster to do most of its work. Its docstring could have so
> > much in common with that in Cluster that it could be just a line or
> > two in addition to that of Cluster.
>
> > Is there a way for the ClusterSet docstring to tack the Cluster
> > docstring onto itself, rather than simply saying "See docstring for
> > Cluster"?
>
> #assume Cluster already defined by this point
> class ClusterSet(object):
> __doc__ = Cluster.__doc__
> #rest of class body
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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