On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Erwin Mueller<dev...@deventm.org> wrote: > Hello, I'm new to Python (using it for two months) and I wonder how can I > comment the const. values with the doc-strings. I.e. if I have code: > >>FRACTION_MIN = 1 >>FRACTION_MAX = 10 >> >>class Fraction(collections.MutableSequence): >> '''Model a fraction with denominators. >> >> It contains one ore more denomintors in a list for quick access. >> The class is thread save, it uses a lock for all operations. >> ''' >> >> def __init__(self): >> # ... > > The class and the methods can have doc-strings, but what about the const. > values, FRACTION_MIN and FRACTION_MAX?
Only modules, classes, and functions/methods can have docstrings associated with them. For anything else, you have to use comments; or you can mention them in the docstrings of related things. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
