print("...") V/s """docstrings"""!!!!!

Question

This got me thinking....suppose I want user to see some comment from me (the dev, that is), should I just use print("...") or use """docstrings""" along with help(func_name)?? Which would use less resources?? Is one better than the other in some particular cases??

Answer 1

If you should define a function just to display docstring, when help(func_name) is called it doesn't sound good.

I did a test with a method timeit from a module timeit and compared those ways, print("comment") was about 2000* faster than help(func).