> Date: 2012年9月12日 15:32:38 -0400 > From: Paul Fallon <paulfallon1106 at gmail.com> > To: docs at python.org > Subject: [docs] Documentation Strings >> 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 Hi Paul, Thanks for the suggestion. This is currently mentioned in the tutorial portion of the documentation in the section called "Documentation Strings" though: http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/controlflow.html#documentation-strings It provides a code snippet very similar to the one that you provided. --Chris