Thanks!
> On 08/21/2012 12:44 PM, Miki Tebeka wrote:
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> > <snip>
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> >>> class B:
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> > ... '''a {} string'''.format('doc')
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> > ...
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> >>>> B.__doc__
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> >>>>
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> > <snip> I wonder why the first B docstring is empty. Thanks, -- Miki
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> According to some early documentation:
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> "convenient initialization of the |__doc__| attribute of modules,
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> classes and functions by placing a string literal by itself as the first
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> statement in the suite. It must be a literal -- an expression yielding a
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> string object is not accepted as a documentation string, since future
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> tools may need to derive documentation from source by parsing."
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>
> --
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> DaveA
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