A question about help() and docstrings
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)
ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com
Wed Apr 2 20:02:32 EST 2003
Richard Kuhns wrote:
>>>>from dummy import *
>>>>help('dummy_function')
>
> no Python documentation found for 'dummy_function'
Try this instead:
help(dummy_function)
i.e. pass it the function *object* itself, rather than
the *name* of the function.
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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg
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