On 6/9/2011 9:12 PM, Carl Banks wrote:
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.
An empty docstring "" could be interpreted as 'ditto' ;-)
It would be useless otherwise.
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