On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:59:08 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > 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.
+1 Better than an decorator! -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
