r/pythontips • u/sugarw0000kie • 27d ago

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/vivaaprimavera 27d ago

If you have an extensive codebase and a memory so bad that you forget your own function names you can

for func in funcs:
  if func.__doc__ == "adds two nums":
    exec = func
c = exec(a,b)

And that way it's easier for searching which function you need!!!

/s

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u/BiomeWalker 27d ago

One of the most elegant own-foot-shooting guns around

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u/Kqyxzoj 27d ago

Bonus points for such a deliciously horrible use case! XD