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Author r.david.murray
Recipients eli.bendersky, eric.araujo, jaraco, orsenthil, python-dev, r.david.murray, scott.dial
Date 2011-08-02.10:58:33
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Well, this is actually blessed by http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/, but if that convention were actually followed the docstring would go *after* the assignment.  But I agree that it is rarely used, and as far as I know is not used in the stdlib at all.
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