[New-bugs-announce] [issue43918] anext builtin docstring has no signature text or info about default argument

[Erik Welch]

New submission from Erik Welch <erik.n.welch at gmail.com>:

The new builtin `anext` does not have a signature (from `inspect.signature(anext)`).  This is expected, because `inspect` does not yet support signatures with C NULL default value.  However, `anext` also doesn't have text in its docstring that describes its signature as is typical for builtins.  This means `help(anext)` in the Python REPL gives no indication how to call the function.  It should.

This is clearly an oversight.  See comment here: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/23847#commitcomment-45318696

Also, the "default" argument is not described in the docstring.

Related issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue31861

(PR forthcoming)

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 391650
nosy: eriknw, pablogsal
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: anext builtin docstring has no signature text or info about default argument
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.10

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