[Python-Dev] Quick poll: should help() show bound arguments?

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/24/2014 11:07 PM, Larry Hastings wrote:
> A) pydoc and help() should not show bound parameters in the signature,
>  like inspect.signature. B) pydoc and help() should show bound
> parameters in the signature, like inspect.getfullargspec.


+1 for A:  it is how you would actually call the object on which 'help()'
is being called.  The fact that self will be passed silently is
irrelevant to the caller.


Tres.
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