On Thursday, June 9, 2011 3:27:36 PM UTC-7, Gregory Ewing wrote: > IMO, it shouldn't be necessary to explicitly copy docstrings > around like this in the first place. Either it should happen > automatically, or help() should be smart enough to look up > the inheritance hierarchy when given a method that doesn't > have a docstring of its own.
Presumably, the reason you are overriding a method in a subclass is to change its behavior; I'd expect an inherited docstring to be inaccurate more often than not. So I'd be -1 on automatically inheriting them. However, I'd be +1 easily on a little help from the language to explicitly request to inherit the docstring. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
