[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

New submission from John Mark Vandenberg: Introduced in the initial version of statistics was starting a docstring https://hg.python.org/cpython/annotate/685e044bed5e/Lib/statistics.py#l380 Somewhere the fourth quote is dropped, as it doesnt appear in the docs:

[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

John Mark Vandenberg added the comment: The additional quotation mark is shown in help() >>> help(statistics.median_grouped) Help on function median_grouped in module statistics: median_grouped(data, interval=1) "Return the 50th percentile (median) of grouped continuous data. --

[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

John Mark Vandenberg added the comment: Thank you for clarifying that. Does that mean that this issue should not be assigned to docs@python and should not have a Component of 'Documentation'? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

Emanuel Barry added the comment: I don't know why you believe docstrings are programmatically linked to the library reference... Here is the file that is used to make the online documentation: https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Doc/library/statistics.rst -- nosy: +ebarry

[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

Zachary Ware added the comment: Documentation is fine for docstrings, it gets the attention of the docs@ list. Library is also fine, since the change actually goes in Lib/. Both is most correct :) Thanks for the report and patch! -- nosy: +zach.ware

[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 041701817c5d by Zachary Ware in branch '3.4': Issue #25494: Remove extra quote from docstring. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/041701817c5d New changeset 2dd97ad96021 by Zachary Ware in branch '3.5': Issue #25494: Merge with 3.4

[issue25494] Four quotes used to begin docstring

Emanuel Barry added the comment: It probably shouldn't be assigned to docs@python, but it's still a typo in the source code, so it should probably be under Library anyway. LGTM -- ___ Python tracker