On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:00 am Corey Richardson wrote: > Excerpts from Colin J. Williams's message of Sun Jul 10 18:28:15 -0400 > 2011: >> Try: >> >> def f(): >> ds= """docstring""" >> print ds > > That doesn't actually make a docstring, though. It makes a string object > and points the name ds at it. Do you know what a docstring is?
Colin might not be aware of why docstrings are useful, and arbitrary local variables ds="""docstring""" are not. def f1(): """This is my documentation string. Imagine this has actual useful information. """ def f2(): dc = """This is my documentation string. Imagine this has actual useful information. """ Now, at the interactive interpreter, call: help(f1) help(f2) -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list