property __doc__

[David Isaac]

To access the doc string of a property,
I have to use the class not an instance.
Why?

Thanks,
Alan Isaac

 

[Robert Kern]

To access the doc string of a property,
I have to use the class not an instance.
Why?

Because getting the attribute from the instance gets the calculated value (the
value returned from the getter function), not the actual property object.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco