[Patches] [ python-Patches-934356 ] help on re-exported names (bug 925628)

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Patches item #934356, was opened at 2004-04-13 13:02
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: help on re-exported names (bug 925628)

Initial Comment:
help(module) only provides help on classes and functions 
that were first defined within the module.  For wrapper 
modules (like re), or partially-in-C modules (like socket)
this is not helpful.

The following patch changes pydoc(module) to document 
exactly the names listed in __all__, with a fallback to the 
current choices if __all__ is not defined.


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>Comment By: Jim Jewett (jimjjewett)
Date: 2004-04-16 16:23

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Replacing with an improved version.  This is a diff to CVS 
head; users of Python 2.3 would have to either change the 
line numbers or also replace collections.deque.  (Setting deque 
to list was enough to allow testing.)

[Original patch had a problem with normal modules, but the 
exception was caught at a higher level, and *something* 
returned, so I didn't notice it at first.]

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