On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > 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’? >
Yeah, I'll do that. Thanks. -eric > -- > \ “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 > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list