[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings

[Michael Foord]

On 17 August 2011 13:58, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 17 August 2011 04:33, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
>> wrote:
>> > Unless you regularly inspect instance.__doc__ by hand (not via help),
>> I'm
>> > not sure what you hope to accomplish here.
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>> One trick I did discover thanks to this thread: 'pydoc.pager =
>> pydoc.plainpager'
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> Thanks Nick, that does make help substantially less annoying. I'll add it
> to my python startup.
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Although `help(klass)` is still (often) way too verbose if I *just* want to
see the class docstring (help shows all methods and their docstrings too).
And as you can't modify a class docstring there's no way to fix indented
text there.

All the best,

Michael


> All the best,
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> Michael
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>> Eliminates the potentially annoying behaviour where help() takes over
>> the entire terminal window and doesn't appear in the scrollback
>> history.
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>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
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