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Author	larry
Recipients	brett.cannon, larry, meador.inge, skrah, tim.peters, yselivanov
Date	2014-01-13.23:55:48
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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> Another issue is that with the patch applied help() is broken for > certain forms of docstrings: Yeah. We discussed this briefly in #19674. I wanted to use a marker that wasn't The Convention That People Have Used For Decades but I felt overruled. I want to revisit it for precisely the reason you cite. (I just realized, Sphinx autodoc is irrelevant, as if the string is legitimate it be stripped off the docstring anyway.)

> Another issue is that with the patch applied help() is broken for
> certain forms of docstrings:

Yeah.  We discussed this briefly in #19674.  I wanted to use a marker that wasn't The Convention That People Have Used For Decades but I felt overruled.  I want to revisit it for precisely the reason you cite.

(I just realized, Sphinx autodoc is irrelevant, as if the string is legitimate it be stripped off the docstring anyway.)

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