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I have the following function:

def my_func():
    """My docstring is both funny and informative"""
    pass

How do I get access to the docstring?

+11  A: 

Interactively, you can display it with

help(my_func)

Or from code you can retrieve it with

my_func.__doc__
unwind
BTW: This technique works with builtin functions as well as modules and classes (test help() with objects too - might also work). This makes your python shell an interactive help shell!
Daren Thomas