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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2020-04-15 20:00:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-15 20:00:20 (GMT) |
| commit | fbf2786c4c89430e2067016603078cf3500cfe94 (patch) | |
| tree | 151141df42e6e058127ef59eae7f95c5e4644991 /Doc/library | |
| parent | ba1bcffe5cafc1bb0ac6fdf9ecef51e75e342707 (diff) | |
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bpo-40257: Output object's own docstring in pydoc (GH-19479)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst index d00a30f..6346451 100644 --- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst +++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst @@ -473,12 +473,15 @@ Retrieving source code Get the documentation string for an object, cleaned up with :func:`cleandoc`. If the documentation string for an object is not provided and the object is - a class, a method, a property or a descriptor, retrieve the documentation + a method, a property or a descriptor, retrieve the documentation string from the inheritance hierarchy. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 Documentation strings are now inherited if not overridden. + .. versionchanged:: 3.9 + Documentation strings for classes are no longer inherited. + .. function:: getcomments(object) |