[Python-Dev] docstring before function declaration (original) (raw)

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Mon Mar 21 08:59:18 CET 2005


On Monday 21 March 2005 18:10, Nicholas Jacobson wrote:

IIRC, Guido once mentioned that he regretted not setting function docstrings to come before the function declaration line, instead of after.

How do you distinguish between a docstring at the top of a module that's immediately followed by a function? Is it the module docstring or the function docstring?

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