[Python-3000] help() broken?

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Humberto Diogenes wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   It seems that help() doesn't work on instances in py3k.
>
>   Is this what this ticket is about?
>   http://bugs.python.org/issue1883
>
>
>  Python 3.0a4+ (py3k:62469M, Apr 23 2008, 20:46:05)
>  [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
>  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> class C:
>  ...     """Bla"""
>  ...
>  >>> help(C)
>  Help on class C in module __main__:
>
>  class C(builtins.object)
>   |  Bla
>   |
>   |  Data descriptors defined here:
>   |
>   |  __dict__
>   |      dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
>   |
>   |  __weakref__
>   |      list of weak references to the object (if defined)
>
>  >>> c = C()
>  >>> help(c)
>  Help on C in module __main__:
>
>  <__main__.C object at 0x4a8ab8>
>
>
>   help(instance) should give the same answer as help(Class), right?

Yes. A bug was introduced in the pydoc.render_doc() function, during
the removal of classic classes:
The "not (inspect.ismodule...)" test should be in a "if" statement,
not a "elif".

If nobody does it before, I will take care of this tonight.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc