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Jean-Michel Pichavant  
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 More options Jul 28 2009, 5:33 am
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From: Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:33:43 +0200
Local: Tues, Jul 28 2009 5:33 am
Subject: Re: Override a method but inherit the docstring
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Shai wrote:
> On Jul 27, 5:05 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
> wrote:

>> Ben Finney wrote:

>>> The docstring for FooGonk.frobnicate is, intentionally, perfectly
>>> applicable to the BarGonk.frobnicate method also. Yet in overriding
>>> the method, the original docstring is not associated with it.

>> I've also tried within the python interpreter, and it can perfectly
>> solve docstring inheritance. So why would you explicitly assign
>> docstring to child methods ?

> What do you mean by "can perfectly solve docstring inheritance" ?

> After the following,

> class Foo(object):
>     def foo(self):
>         "Frobber"
>         pass

> class Bar(Foo):
>     def foo(self):
>         pass

> help(Bar.foo) does not display "Frobber" on my interpreter.

You're right. I must have made some dumb mistake. So interpreters do not
solve docstring inheritance, Epydoc does.

JM


 
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