How to print Docstring of python function from inside the function itself?

Question

I want to print the docstring of a python function from inside the function itself. for eg.

def my_function(self):
  \"\"\"Doc string for my function.\"\"\"
         


        

Answer 1

There's quite a simple method for doing this that nobody has mentioned yet:

import inspect

def func():
    """Doc string"""
    print inspect.getdoc(func)

And this does what you want.

There's nothing fancy going on here. All that's happening is that by doing func.__doc__ in a function defers attribute resolution long enough to have looking up __doc__ on it work as you'd expect.

I use this with docopt for console script entry points.