[Python-Dev] readonly doc (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Oct 22 20:39:53 CEST 2009

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:18, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com>wrote:

On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Well doc isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance rules.

Maybe we could add a ticket to flag this in the docs. Sure, go for it.

Is doc not normal due to its general underscorishness, or is it not normal because it isn't?

I honestly don't follow that sentence. But doc is special because of its use; documenting how to use of an object. In this case when you call something like help() on an instance of an object it skips the instance's value for doc and goes straight to the defining class and stops there as you don't care how a subclass says to use itself as that is not what you are working with.

Any others that deserve special notice, while we're at it?

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