Issue #24064: Property() docstrings are now writeable.

(Patch by Berker Peksag.)

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
index 48d871a..a29ff10 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
 * New Kazakh :ref:`codec <standard-encodings>` ``kz1048``.  (Contributed by
   Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22682`.)
 
+* Property docstrings are now writable. This is especially useful for
+  :func:`collections.namedtuple` docstrings.
+  (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`24064`.)
+
 * New Tajik :ref:`codec <standard-encodings>` ``koi8_t``.  (Contributed by
   Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`22681`.)
 
@@ -283,6 +287,18 @@ code
   the full chained traceback, just like the interactive interpreter.
   (Contributed by Claudiu Popa in :issue:`17442`.)
 
+collections
+-----------
+
+* You can now update docstrings produced by :func:`collections.namedtuple`::
+
+    Point = namedtuple('Point', ['x', 'y'])
+    Point.__doc__ = 'ordered pair'
+    Point.x.__doc__ = 'abscissa'
+    Point.y.__doc__ = 'ordinate'
+
+  (Contributed by Berker Peksag in :issue:`24064`.)
+
 compileall
 ----------