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Mon Nov 20 17:10:31 EST 2017

On 20Nov2017 10:49, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>Unless one had a misfortune and wanted another docstring.
>>Good point. I guess having differing docstrings should make
>otherwise equal objects ineligible for merging.
>[...example...]
>>I think setting the docstring of an existing immutable object
>would have to be disallowed -- you need to create a new object
>if you want it to have a distinct docstring, e.g.
>>MAX_BUFSIZE = int(8192, __doc__ = 'Size of the hardware buffer used 
>for I/O on this device.')

Which is painful and elaborate. In my original post I had written:
 Now, I accept that the "CPython coaleases some values to shared singletons" 
 thing is an issue, but the language doesn't require it, and one could change 
 implementations such that applying a docstring to an object _removed_ it from 
 the magic-shared-singleton pool, avoiding conflicts with other uses of the 
 same value by coincidence.
hoping for automatic arrangement of that.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> (formerly cs at zip.com.au)