Martin Panter added the comment:
getdoc-news.patch suggests some wording to add to What’s New, and also adds a
“Changed in version 3.5” note to inspect.getdoc().
BTW I also noticed that the class doc strings are not inherited from
object.__doc__, although method doc strings _are_ inherited from object(), such
as object.__init__.__doc__. The current documentation suggests that the class
doc string “The most base type” should also be inherited.
$ cat module.py
class SomeClass:
'''CLASS DOCSTRING'''
def __init__(self):
'''METHOD DOCSTRING'''
$ ./python -m pydoc module.SomeClass # Doc strings intact
[. . .]
module.SomeClass = class SomeClass(builtins.object)
| CLASS DOCSTRING
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self)
| METHOD DOCSTRING
| [. . .]
$ ./python -OOm pydoc module.SomeClass # Method inherited, class stripped
[. . .]
module.SomeClass = class SomeClass(builtins.object)
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self)
| Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
| [. . .]
I also wonder how well this feature would work when someone tries to override a
base method by using a mix-in type class.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39379/getdoc-news.patch
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