[issue20075] help(open) eats first line

[Gennadiy Zlobin]

Gennadiy Zlobin added the comment:

Yes, so basically signature line in help(open) is not shown because ast.parse fails to parse the return value

-> file object

According to grammar, it should be 
-> file 
or 
-> 'file object' 
or something like this.

as for sqlite, it fails to parse square brackets:

connect(database[, timeout, detect_types, isolation_level,\n\
        check_same_thread, factory, cached_statements, uri])

As an idea, maybe we can come up with a failover i.e. if ast can't parse the signature, just use __text_signature__ instead of signature object:

Lib/pydoc.py:1325
if not argspec:
-   argspec = '(...)'
+   argspec = object.__text_signature__


Or probably just don't show the signature if it is not formatted correctly as it is now (after the patch applied).

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