Carl Banks wrote:
Presumably, the reason you are overriding a method in a subclass is to change its behavior;
Not always true by any means, and maybe not even usually true. Consider overriding for the purpose of implementing an abstract method, or because something about the internal operation of a method needs to be modified to suit the requirements of the subclass. I have a lot of situations like this in PyGUI, where there is a bunch of generic classes defining the public API, and subclasses of them for each implementation (Cocoa, Gtk and Windows). There are heaps and heaps of overridden methods in the implementation classes, and very few of them need or should have a docstring different from the generic one. Not automatically inheriting the docstrings puts a big burden on the maintainer to keep all of them in sync. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
