How to get method's arguments

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Victor Black [SMTP:muk_pr at yahoo.com]
> 
> 1.How does IDLE show the argument list of a method or procedure.
> e.g when you write "dir(" a hint writing "dir([object]) -> list of
> strings"
> pops up.
 
It shows the first line of the docstring. Try print dir.__doc__ to see the
whole docstring.
 
> (The sources are available but overwhelming)
> 2.Are there any other open source IDEs for python ?
 
On Windows, there is the rather wonderful PythonWin - see
<http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePython/win32all.html>.

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk




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