Sometimes when using class inheritance, I want the overriding methods of the subclass to get the docstring of the matching method in the base class. You can do this with decorators (after the class definition), with class decorators, and with metaclasses [1].
However, I was hoping for a way to do it with just function decorators on the methods (no metaclass or class decorator). I am not sure if this is doable. I realize now that this is exactly the reason I got to thinking last week about objects being notified when they are bound [2]. So, is there a way to do this with just decorators, or am I "stuck" with the metaclass/class decorator route? (It's not all that bad :) Thanks! -eric p.s. Am I missing something or can you really not change the docstring of a class? I was thinking about the idea of inheriting class docstrings too. [1] http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577743-using-decorators-to-inherit-function-docstrings/ [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-June/010446.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
