Getting the docstring from a function

Question

I have the following function:

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

How do I get access to the docstring?

Answer 1

Interactively, you can display it with:

help(my_func)

Or from code you can retrieve it with (surround it with print(.) to get a formatted output):

my_func.__doc__