Function getdoc

Lib/pydoc.py:137–140

Get the doc string or comments for an object.

(object)

                          inherit_class_doc=False)

def getdoc(object):
    """Get the doc string or comments for an object."""
    result = _getdoc(object) or inspect.getcomments(object)
    return result and re.sub('^ *\n', '', result.rstrip()) or ''

def splitdoc(doc):
    """Split a doc string into a synopsis line (if any) and the rest."""