While working on #8810, I was reminded of the problem of wanting to inherit docstrings while replacing a method implementation.

The abstract base class method docstrings for tzinfo.utcoffset and tzinfo.dst are also correct for the concrete subclasses in the pure Python and the C versions. However, the docstrings currently need to be duplicated in all 3 places manually.

functools.wraps already plays in this space, but arguably asserts *too much* about the relationship between components

A couple of descriptors on bound and unbound methods (for __doc__ and __signature__) could have dealt with this fairly easily, but we don't have unbound methods any more :(

Slight correction: turns out this docstring appears in a lot of other places, too.

Perhaps, something like @functools.inherit decorator could help: https://gist.github.com/1st1/8703533 (just a quick illustration).

After issue15582, is it still actual?

Agreed, making it easy to follow the inheritance chains at docstring lookup time means it would be redundant to duplicate them at class definition time.

Code that interrogates __doc__ directly rather than using inspect.getdoc won't benefit from the new behaviour, but that's a quality of implementation question in the code handling the introspection.