[Zope3-dev] Re: New Pyskel changes

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 10:19:36 -0400


> > But mindlessly reapplying the docstrings from the interfaces could
> > create docstrings that don't match the implementation.
> 
> Hence "carefully" above. As in, only reapply docstrings when the 
> existing docstring for the method is "See Foo.Bar.Baz". Do not reapply 
> the docstring if it has been changed.

That doesn't sound like "reapply" to me, but rather as a separate tool
to finalize docstrings.  Fine with me, as long as I also have an
option to finalize docstrings right away (which works better for my
programming style).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)