[Python-Dev] slots, properties, descriptors, and pydoc (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Apr 17 13:33:04 EDT 2004

> 3) extend the slots handler to set the descriptor's doc string > to dictionary values if the slot's value is a dictionary.

I haven't implemented this, because I don't know a thing about Python's C interface. If someone more able would knock off a prototype, I would be grateful.

If I understand this proposal correctly (the dict values would provide the docstrings for the slots) I'd rather not make this default behavior; different metaclasses may want to use the dict value for different purposes, and subsuming it by default for the doc string would make that harder to do.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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