From: wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net (William Tanksley)
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 05:49:07 GMT
Subject: Why are they? Re: Module Documentation Strings
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On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 20:38:37 -0500, evil Japh wrote:
>Why are there documentation strings?
>I mean, granted it would be very bad if the next version of python did not
>support them, but why not just use comment lines?

Because comment lines are only visible within the source.  Docstrings may be
accessed from anywhere, without any knowledge of the source.

>Jeff Pinyan (jeffp at crusoe.net)

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