[Python-Dev] pydoc for named tuples is missing methods
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 12:18:20 CET 2011
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
>> No, probably we should add some sort of __yes_i_am_public__ override
>> attribute that pydoc looks for. It's such a pity that those methods
>> have to have underscores...
>
> My opinion is that pydoc should use __dir__ (namedtuple does not
> currently use it but could).
Oh, I forgot about __dir__. However, the problem with that is that
dir() and __dir__() are designed to return *everything*, public or
private.
Cheers,
Nick.
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