[Python-Dev] Best way to specify docstrings for member objects (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 19:05:26 EDT 2019


On Mar 20, 2019, at 3:47 PM, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <python-dev at python.org> wrote:

NormalDist.mu.doc = 'Arithmetic mean' NormalDist.sigma.doc = 'Standard deviation' IMO this is another manifestation of the problem that things in the class definition have no access to the class object. Logically speaking, a definition item should be able to see everything that is defined before it.

The member objects get created downstream by the type() metaclass. So, there isn't a visibility issue because the objects don't exist yet.

Raymond



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