[IPython-dev] %page help(x)
Fernando Perez
fperez.net at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 20:24:23 EDT 2011
Hey Mark,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Mark Voorhies <mark.voorhies at ucsf.edu> wrote:
> I'd like to send the results of help(myclass) (i.e., the class and method docstrings)
> to the qtconsole pager. "myclass?', "myclass??", and "%pdoc myclass" are all not
> what I'm looking for. Is this a thing? If not, which module should I be hacking on?
>
help() is a part of the python stdlib, you can see the code by typing
help?? at the ipython prompt. It will show you that it's a little
wrapper around pydoc.help. So you could simply write your own
function/magic that uses this helper but instead of letting it display
its results, fetches them and calls the ipython pager.
Let us know if you need further details.
Cheers,
f
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