[C++-sig] Re: boost python and python help

[Nikolay Mladenov]

As a workaround you can try 
>>> help(module_name.function_name)
which works for me.

Ben Young wrote:
> 
> I know it is not a major issue, but did you know that free functions in
> boost::python ified modules do not show up in the interactive help.
> Looking into this (pydoc lines 558) it appears that for the free functions
> 
> >>> inspect.isroutine(function)
> passes, but
> >>> if inspect.isbuiltin(function) or inspect.getmodule(function) is module:
> fails, mainly because inspect.getmodule(function) returns None.
> 
> I'm not sure if there is a nice solution, as the functions are of a special
> type, but this can be quite annoying when playing around with new APIs.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben Young

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