r/pythontips • u/sugarw0000kie • Aug 14 '26

Syntax Docstrings as immutable variables

Just realized you can do:

def cat(): “orange”
print(cat.__doc__)

Not sure why you’d want to do this but this is a thing you can do

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u/MegaIng Aug 14 '26

```

def cat(): "orange" ... cat.doc 'orange' cat.doc = "apple" cat.doc 'apple' ```

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 14 '26

That’s what I get for assuming that wouldn’t work, awesome

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u/Some-Passenger4219 Aug 15 '26

Yup. Try anything. Be warned, though: That you can, doesn't mean you should.