Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Thu Jun 5 13:00:23 EDT 2003

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In article <5SKdnbYwob4BVkOjXTWcpw at comcast.com>,
"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
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>"Seo Sanghyeon" <unendliche at hanmail.net> wrote in message
>news:45e6545c.0306041804.4ea5e07c at posting.google.com...
>> So... Python throws out __doc__ if it is not a real string. Why not
>use
>> something like "doc = str(doc)" instead? Yeah, quite useless,
>perhaps.
>> I have no idea of possible use cases. But if there is some hidden
>reason
>> for not to use str() on instance __doc__, please enlighten me.
>
>Probably no one ever thought to do so.  And developers are reluctant
>to penalize 99.999% of uses for the .001% that might do something
>wierd like this

Looks like somebody's trying to internationalize doc strings.

        Regards.        Mel.

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