[Python-Dev] Pre-PEP Idea
Paul Prescod
paul@prescod.net
Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:19:41 -0500
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
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> ...
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> heh. so that's why I'm having a slight headache; paul is
> in there stealing my ideas? ;-)
I should have just let you invent it!
> I got stuck on whether this is best implemented as a true
> builtin, or just patched into the builtins dictionary by site.py...
six of one, half dozen of the other.
* builtin means a little more consistency across environments
* ptach means a little less code on startup
What do you think of my ten-line bootstrapper idea. I weigh the former
slightly higher then the latter. Plus, I could perhaps put a helpful
message in the bootstrapper to help people debug site.py and PYTHONPATH
problems. :)
> 1) plus a sys.sethelphook function which allow the environ-
> ment to override the default behaviour; for example, if you're
> typing help("intro") in PythonWorks' console window, you pro-
> bably want to get nicely formatted help in the "info" panel,
> not in the console window itself.
Good idea. And eventually some way for extensions to register
themselves...and a pager. Do we have pager code hanging around? Some
docstrings are already long and we have no mechanism for breaking them
up ....
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