G, sorry about the line wrapping horror; trying again.
class InheritDoc(object):
"""
Docstring inheriting method descriptor
The class itself is used as a decorator that creates a class
property for
the method; the first time the property is used it installs the
method's doc
We've been trying to find an easy way to inherit docstrings when
overriding methods in subclasses, e.g. so that Sphinx does a nice job.
We used Shai's DocInherit code from this post:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/tree/browse_frm/thread/1e4075ba10dcbdd9/f63651cd9e76df63?rnum=1&_d
