[New-bugs-announce] [issue17424] help() should use the class signature

[Sean Reifschneider]

New submission from Sean Reifschneider:

David Beazley in his tutorial pointed out that you could use a metaclass to create function signatures for the common use case of:

class foo:
   def __init__(self, name, value, high, low):
      self.name = name
      self.value = value
      [...]

The signature can be used so that the classes created using an automation metaclass will show a signature of "(*args)".  inspect.signature will use this signature, but "help()" will not use the signature.

This is a stub created during the tutorial, I will flesh it out further during the sprints.

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assignee: jafo
components: Interpreter Core
messages: 184194
nosy: jafo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: help() should use the class signature
versions: Python 3.5

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