Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: > IMO, it shouldn't be necessary to explicitly copy docstrings around > like this in the first place. Either it should happen automatically, > or help() should be smart enough to look up the inheritance hierarchy > when given a method that doesn't have a docstring of its own.
Since the docstrings are useful in more places than just ‘help’, I'm +1 on having docstrings be automatically inherited if not specified. Would the OP like to propose this on ‘python-ideas’? -- \ “Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind | `\ the human shield of their believers' feelings.” —Richard | _o__) Stallman | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
