Adding docstrings to namedtuples?

Question

Is it possible to add a documentation string to a namedtuple in an easy manner?

I tried

from collections import namedtuple

Point = namedtuple("Point", ["x", "y"])
"""
A point in 2D space
"""

# Yet another test

"""
A(nother) point in 2D space
"""
Point2 = namedtuple("Point2", ["x", "y"])

print Point.__doc__ # -> "Point(x, y)"
print Point2.__doc__ # -> "Point2(x, y)"

but that doesn't cut it. Is it possible to do in some other way?

Answer 1

In Python 3, no wrapper is needed, as the __doc__ attributes of types is writable.

from collections import namedtuple

Point = namedtuple('Point', 'x y')
Point.__doc__ = '''\
A 2-dimensional coordinate

x - the abscissa
y - the ordinate'''

This closely corresponds to a standard class definition, where the docstring follows the header.

class Point():
    '''A 2-dimensional coordinate

    x - the abscissa
    y - the ordinate'''
    <class code>

This does not work in Python 2.

AttributeError: attribute '__doc__' of 'type' objects is not writable.