CONTRIBUTING.md says to prefer ... Not the most impactful change but fixing
these will allow us to lint for it in the future and get a consistent style.
python/mypy#2380 showed a discrepancy between object and FunctionType in stdlib2. The first defined __doc__ to be str, the second Optional[str]. As FunctionType depends on object, this is no longer valid.
As suggested by @gvanrossum in python/mypy#2380, all __doc__ should be considered Optional.
(Final verdict was just to remove most __doc__ attributes since it's inherited from object.)