[Python-Dev] Re: [PEP 224] Attribute Docstrings (original) (raw)

Christian Tanzer tanzer@swing.co.at
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:23:08 +0200

"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal@lemburg.com> wrote:

> Triple quoted strings work -- that's what I'm constantly using. The > downside is, that the docstrings either contain spurious white space > or it messes up the layout of the code (if you start subsequent lines=

> in the first column). =

Just a question of how smart you doc string extraction tools are. Have a look at hack.py:

Come on. There are probably hundreds of hacks around to massage docstrings. I've written one myself. Ka-Ping Yee suggested inspect.py...

My point was that in such cases it is much better if the language does it than if everybody does his own kludge. If a change of the Python parser concerning this point is out of the question, why not have a standard module providing this functionality (Ka-Ping Yee offered one , ).

Regards, Christian

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