A question about help() and docstrings

John Hall wweexxsseessssaa at telusplanet.net
Wed Apr 2 10:13:33 EST 2003


On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 06:43:10 -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
<shalehperry at attbi.com> wrote:

>look at site.py in your python directory.  help() is defined there as a 
>function wrapping an instance of a class.  The class comes from pydoc.py in 
>the same directory.  Give it a peak.


I think you mean "peek" rather than "peak" here.
And probably not "pique" either.

I haven't done a programming "peek" or "poke" since the days of Atari
Basic in the early 80's. I love those graphic names.

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John W Hall <wweexxsseessssaa at telusplanet.net>
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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