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Author	ssteiner
Recipients	georg.brandl, ssteiner
Date	2009-10-22.19:47:32
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Around the time of the 2.6.4 release, it was suggested that Python 2.6.3 changed the __doc__ attribute to read-only. See: http://bugs.python.org/issue7183 When asked whether this read-only behaviour was intentional, Guido answered, simply "Yes" and also wrote: On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance rules. I suggested that it might be helpful to document this "special" behaviour and also any other attributes that are "special" though which ones they might be are unknown at this time.

Around the time of the 2.6.4 release, it was suggested that Python 2.6.3
changed the __doc__ attribute to read-only.  See:
http://bugs.python.org/issue7183

When asked whether this read-only behaviour was intentional, Guido
answered, simply "Yes" and also wrote:

On Oct 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Well __doc__ isn't a normal attribute -- it doesn't follow inheritance
rules.

I suggested that it might be helpful to document this "special"
behaviour and also any other attributes that are "special" though which
ones they might be are unknown at this time.

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