Documentation strings not accessible via REPL

[raenye]

The following code behaves differently when typed in the REPL shell and when run from a script:

def f():
    "doc string"
    pass

REPL (Thonny)

>>> help(f)
Help on function f in module __main__:

f()
>>> f.__doc__ is None
True

Script (Thonny)

>>> %Run scratch.py
>>> help(f)
Help on function f in module __main__:

f()
    doc string
>>> f.__doc__
'doc string'

REPL (official CPython)

>>> help(f)
Help on function f in module __main__:

f(x)
    doc string
>>> f.__doc__
'doc string'

Is this intentional?

Thanks,
R.

[aivarannamaa]

Thank you for the report!

It was not intentional. I had made a mistake in emulating Python REPL, which prints the value of each "bare" expression (ie. ast.Expr node). I forgot, that the docstring is an exception to this.

Should be fixed now.