From: Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 13:29:30 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: #21225: copy docstrings from base classes
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~27
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=86fe53e976435c22c6c73203c84fe9f1e7beaf4b;p=python

#21225: copy docstrings from base classes
---

diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index 39878b8337..8d68f1e424 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -70,16 +70,16 @@ SEEK_END = 2
 # Method descriptions and default implementations are inherited from the C
 # version however.
 class IOBase(_io._IOBase, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
-    pass
+    __doc__ = _io._IOBase.__doc__
 
 class RawIOBase(_io._RawIOBase, IOBase):
-    pass
+    __doc__ = _io._RawIOBase.__doc__
 
 class BufferedIOBase(_io._BufferedIOBase, IOBase):
-    pass
+    __doc__ = _io._BufferedIOBase.__doc__
 
 class TextIOBase(_io._TextIOBase, IOBase):
-    pass
+    __doc__ = _io._TextIOBase.__doc__
 
 RawIOBase.register(FileIO)