[Python-Dev] Strange "help(int.__lt__)". Probably documentation bug

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 13:41:19 CET 2014


2014-11-27 13:28 GMT+01:00 Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es>:
> http://bugs.python.org/issue20530#msg231584

Copy/paste of the message:

Preparing a presentation about Python Magic methods I found something
weird: (Python 3.4)

"""
>>> help(int.__lt__)
Help on wrapper_descriptor:

__lt__(self, value, /)  <- THIS!!
    Return self<value.
"""

I am amused about the "/)" suffix in the signature. It happens to all
magic methods.


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