A question about help() and docstrings

[Richard Kuhns]

On Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:02:32 +1200
"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:

> Richard Kuhns wrote:
> >>>>from dummy import *
> >>>>help('dummy_function')
> > 
> > no Python documentation found for 'dummy_function'
> 
> Try this instead:
> 
>    help(dummy_function)
> 
> i.e. pass it the function *object* itself, rather than
> the *name* of the function.

Thanks for the suggestion.  I started out with
"""help('dummy.dummy_function')""", which has worked fine when doing
something like """import dummy""", and so was rather bamfoozled when the
second form didn't work.

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Richard Kuhns			rjkuhns at geetel.net