Eric Snow <ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com> writes: > p.s. Am I missing something or can you really not change the docstring > of a class? I was thinking about the idea of inheriting class > docstrings too.
The docstring of an object (whether function or class or module) is the object's ‘__doc__’ attribute. Access that attribute to get the docstring; re-bind that attribute to set a different docstring. So, it's even possible to do what you ask without decorators at all: class Foo(object): def frob(self): """ Frobnicate thyself. """ class Bar(Foo): def frob(self): pass frob.__doc__ = Foo.frob.__doc__ Not very elegant, and involving rather too much repetition; but not difficult. -- \ “We are no more free to believe whatever we want about God than | `\ we are free to adopt unjustified beliefs about science or | _o__) history […].” —Sam Harris, _The End of Faith_, 2004 | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list