[Python-Dev] bug 576990 (original) (raw)

Roeland Rengelink rengelin@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 12:46:15 +0200

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Roeland Rengelink <rengelin@strw.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > > > 5. This is clearly a profound and interesting bug, but solving this > > seems to involve cans of worms, ten-foot poles, and a re-write of the > > core. [Martin] > To me, it sounds like this. This has been changed forth and back, and > in every state, somebody is unhappy. Yes, it's very messy, see my comments to the SF bug entry. I see no fix that doesn't break something else. Note that this "worked" in the initial 2.2 release only when the subclass didn't have a docstring of its own: >>> class P(property): ... "This is class P" ... >>> p = P(None, None, None, "this is property p") >>> p.doc 'This is class P' >>> The best workaround is I can see that works everywhere is: class P(property): "class P's docstring" doc = property.dict['doc'] --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Thanks for the response and thanks for the workaround. It does solve my immediate problem, and I can live with losing "class P's docstring" in pydoc.

I wish I could do more to help though,

Roeland