How to override the doc of an object instance.

[Maric Michaud]

Le Mercredi 21 Juin 2006 15:58, David Huard a écrit :
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:39:02 +0200, Maric Michaud wrote:
> > This is w.__class__.x.__doc__.
>
> Thanks,
>
> So in order to implement what I want, I should rather consider an
> ipython hack to print w.__class__.x.__doc__ when it exists, instead of
> w.x.__doc_ ? Does this makes sense or it will ruin the standard behaviour?
>
You can replace __IPYTHON__.magic_pinfo at startup to honor properies, but the 
help command is already more explicit, try :

In [53]: class a(object) :
   ....:     x=property(lambda s: 0, doc='my doc string')
   ....:
   ....:

In [54]: b=a()

In [55]: help(b)


Also you can do something like that (put it in some startup script) :


In [27]: __IPYTHON__.old_pinfo = __IPYTHON__.magic_pinfo

In [28]: def new_pinfo(obj) :
   ....:     return __IPYTHON__.old_pinfo('modified_version_of_obj')
   ....:

In [29]: __IPYTHON__.magic_pinfo = new_pinfo

But you can also send a bug report to Ipython maintainer :)

> David

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