[Python-Dev] Best practice for documentation for std lib

[Skip Montanaro]

>> It would be great if the docstring contained a link to the online
>> documentation.
>
> That would have to be a feature of help(), not hardcoded in each docstring.

That *is* a feature of the help function:

Help on built-in module sys:

>>> help(sys)
NAME
    sys

FILE
    (built-in)

MODULE DOCS
    http://docs.python.org/library/sys
...

(pydoc too, though I'm 99.9% sure they use the same underlying
facility Ping originally implemented.)

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