This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author larry
Recipients brett.cannon, larry, meador.inge, skrah, tim.peters, yselivanov
Date 2014-01-13.23:55:48
SpamBayes Score -1.0
Marked as misclassified Yes
Message-id <1389657348.22.0.58873629004.issue20189@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
In-reply-to
Content
> Another issue is that with the patch applied help() is broken for
> certain forms of docstrings:

Yeah.  We discussed this briefly in #19674.  I wanted to use a marker that wasn't The Convention That People Have Used For Decades but I felt overruled.  I want to revisit it for precisely the reason you cite.

(I just realized, Sphinx autodoc is irrelevant, as if the string is legitimate it be stripped off the docstring anyway.)
History
Date User Action Args
2014-01-13 23:55:48larrysetrecipients: + larry, tim.peters, brett.cannon, skrah, meador.inge, yselivanov
2014-01-13 23:55:48larrysetmessageid: <1389657348.22.0.58873629004.issue20189@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2014-01-13 23:55:48larrylinkissue20189 messages
2014-01-13 23:55:48larrycreate