On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:47:08 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> Only modules, classes, and functions/methods can have docstrings >> associated with them. >> For anything else, you have to use comments; or you can mention them in >> the docstrings of related things. > > While this is technically true, writing docstrings to constants (module > or classlevel) works when one uses tools such as epydoc to generate > documentation.
I've never used epydoc, so I'm not sure what you mean. Presumably it uses source code analysis to detect: CONSTANT = 42 """This is a constant.""" even though the string is ignored by the compiler. Is that correct? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
