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[Johan Hake <johan.hake@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> > How would you do that? I tried
> > 
> > %extend dolfin::GenericVector
> > {
> >  %pythoncode
> >  %{
> >    def data(self):
> >        generated_docstring_module.GenericVector.data.__doc__
> >        return self._data()
> >  %}
> > }
> > 
> > But it was only possible to have a "real" string, not a variable that was
> > a str. Not sure why...
> 
> Me neither, what I thought about doing was to generate the contents of
> the *_post.i files from some source and then insert the docstring as a
> literal string in the *_post.i file. But I decided that was too much
> work.
> 
> So what I will end up doing is to assign to the __doc__ members of
> these functions in the dolfin/__init__.py (on import). This is
> possible because Swig doesn't mess around with these functions but
> just adds them to the module. If the *_post.i contains other than
> simple functions/member functions we'll have to generate the *_post.i
> files from some source.

Would this work? I tried:

  class A(object):
      def jada(self):pass
  
  A.jada.__doc__ = "jada"

but I got

  attribute '__doc__' of 'instancemethod' objects is not writable

I am still on vacation, which mean that I have been away from coding a bit so 
my Python is a bit rusty ;)
 
Johan