[issue9118] help() on a property descriptor launches interactive help
Terry J. Reedy
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Jul 4 05:55:14 CEST 2010
Terry J. Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> added the comment:
I agree that help(None) should return help on None but suggest a change to the patch.
I understand that the point of changing
- def __call__(self, request=None):
to the somewhat opaque
+ def __call__(self, *args):
+ try:
+ request, = args
+ except ValueError:
is to make help() work the same as now without defaulting request to None. However, I believe that it will change help(1,2) to being the same as help() instead raising TypeError. I do not think that that API change is desirable. This can be avoided by instead creating a private sentinel. The alternate replacement would be
+ __GoInteractive = object()
+ def __call__(self, request=__GoInteractive):
+ if request is not __GoInteractive:
- if request is not None:
with the rest of code the unchanged.
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nosy: +tjreedy
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