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Ben Finney  
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 More options Jul 17 2009, 6:03 am
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From: Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:03:29 +1000
Local: Fri, Jul 17 2009 6:03 am
Subject: Re: Override a method but inherit the docstring
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Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> writes:
> Just thinking aloud: Write a patch for pydoc that looks up the
> base-class documentation.

That doesn't scale; I want the docstring to be discovered by the normal
interface (the ‘__doc__’ attribute) by *every* tool that gathers
docstrings from methods.

Also, I want to have this behaviour not for every method missing a
docstring, but only for selected methods.

> Of course that might be misleading when A.f and B.f are up to
> something completely different...

Exactly.

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