[Python-Dev] Quick poll: should help() show bound arguments?

[Nick Coghlan]

On 25 January 2014 14:36, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 08:07:43PM -0800, Larry Hastings wrote:

>> A) pydoc and help() should not show bound parameters in the signature,
>> like inspect.signature.
>> B) pydoc and help() should show bound parameters in the signature, like
>> inspect.getfullargspec.
>
> Provided they are described as *methods* rather than *functions*, bound
> methods should not show self. Likewise for classmethod and cls. That is,
> I'm voting +1 on A provided help() doesn't confuse methods and
> functions.

+1 from me for fixing the signature help() and pydoc report for bound
methods that are reported as such.

Cheers,
Nick.

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