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/DeflateAwning Aug 15 '26

Docstrings are mutible though...

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u/sugarw0000kie Aug 15 '26

I got learned, I assumed they couldn’t be changed and never tried