[Python-ideas] Syntax for dedented strings

[Eric Snow]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.

See http://bugs.python.org/issue12773.

-eric

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> All the best,
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> Michael
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>> 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.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nick.
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