'Decode and return lines of the docstring(s) for the object.'

def get_doc(self, encoding=None, ignore=1):

    docstring = self.get_attr(self.object, '__doc__', None)
    if isinstance(docstring, text_type):
        return [prepare_docstring(docstring, ignore)]
    elif isinstance(docstring, str):
        return [prepare_docstring(force_decode(docstring, encoding), ignore)]
    return []
