Re[4]: Re: Mutable Bytes

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:44:04 +1200 Greg Ewing <[email protected]> wrote:

> > The function object also keeps a copy of the name, the doc string
> > and the list of default argument values
> 
> You're right, I had forgotten about those.
> 
> Essentially, it holds all the stuff that can change from one
> def execution to another, while the code object holds everything
> that remains constant.
> 
> The __doc__ attribute could also be implemented as a property
> that looks up the __doc__ of the code object, if desired.
> 
Actually, in Python the doc string is associated with the function object,
not the code block.

Python 2.4a1 (#54, Jul  8 2004, 11:30:13) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> def f():
...     "The doc string"
...     pass
...
>>> f.__doc__
'The doc string'
>>> f.func_code.__doc__
'code(argcount, nlocals, stacksize, flags, codestring, constants, names,\n
varnames, filename, name, firstlineno, lnotab[, freevars[, cellvars]])\n\nCreate
 a code object.  Not for the faint of heart.'

Lenard Lindstrom
<[email protected]>