A question about help() and docstrings

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Wednesday 02 April 2003 06:24, Richard Kuhns wrote:
> Given a file dummy.py as follows:
> ====
> def dummy_function(one, two):
>     """This is a rather stupid function.
>     """
>     print "1 + 1 = 3"
> ====
>
> The doc string shows up just fine.  However, if I use 'from dummy import
> *' help() no longer knows anything about it.
>

in honor of teaching people to fish ....

look at site.py in your python directory.  help() is defined there as a 
function wrapping an instance of a class.  The class comes from pydoc.py in 
the same directory.  Give it a peak.