On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 12:39 PM Jeremiah Paige <ucodery@gmail.com> wrote:

The help function is not a built-in but an instance of a class defined in _sitebuiltins. Like other instances, it has neither __qualname__ nor __name__, but its __class__ does.

indeed: In [*7*]: help.__class__.__qualname__ Out[*7*]: '_Helper' One of the tricks with Python is that not all Callables are functions -- even if they appear to be. Why do you want a __qualname__ for help? -CHB On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 7:46 PM Samuel Muldoon <muldoonsamuel@gmail.com>

wrote:

...

Hi,

A lot of python's built-in functions have an attribute named __qualname__ .

However, the built-in `help` function has no __qualname__ attribute.

In a future version of python can we have:

help.__qualname__ = "help"

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On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 12:39 PM Jeremiah Paige <ucodery@gmail.com> wrote:

The help function is not a built-in but an instance of a class defined in _sitebuiltins. Like other instances, it has neither __qualname__ nor __name__, but its __class__ does.

indeed: In [*7*]: help.__class__.__qualname__ Out[*7*]: '_Helper' One of the tricks with Python is that not all Callables are functions -- even if they appear to be. Why do you want a __qualname__ for help? -CHB On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 7:46 PM Samuel Muldoon <muldoonsamuel@gmail.com>

wrote:

...

Hi,

A lot of python's built-in functions have an attribute named __qualname__ .

However, the built-in `help` function has no __qualname__ attribute.

In a future version of python can we have:

help.__qualname__ = "help"

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