For all us who are new to programming, it should be pointed out in the documentation that a double underscore is needed to get the docstring: >>>function_name.__doc__ <--- double underscores Thanks, Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/docs/attachments/20120912/a55ca8e0/attachment-0001.html>