On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 11:53:46 PM UTC+12, Ian wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >> That is a function that I am generating, so naturally I want to give it a >> useful docstring. Am I “clobbering” any objects passed in by the caller, >> or returned by the caller? No, I am not. > > It isn't useful, though. If somebody writes a docstring for a > function, it's because they want that to be the docstring for the > function ...
Which I am not “clobbering” at all. Do you get that yet? My docstrings apply to *my* functions, not those supplied or generated by the caller. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
