[Python-Dev] should doc string content == documentation content? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 25 03:56:33 CEST 2005


Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

6. Most Python processes don't need the docs anyway. I suspect the docstrings are used primarily in the interactive interpreter and other development tools.

Maybe docstrings should be kept in a separate part of the .pyc file, and not loaded into memory until requested?

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