Understanding Python Documentation
Colin J. Williams
cjw at sympatico.ca
Thu Nov 24 18:32:00 EST 2005
Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote:
> Josh Cronemeyer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have very little experience programming in python but considerable
>> experience with java. One thing that is frustrating me is the
>> differences in the documentation style. Javadocs, at the top level
>> are just a list of packages. Drilling down on a package reveals a
>> list of classes in that package, and drilling down on a class reveals
>> a list of methods for that class. Is there something similar for
>> python?
>> The closest thing I have found to this for python is
>> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/modindex.html which really isn't the
>> same thing at all.
>>
>> wxpython has their documentation like this
>> http://www.wxpython.org/docs/api/ is there something like this for
>> the rest of python?
>
>
> Here is the Python 2.3 standard lib docs generated using epydoc:
>
> http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/stdlib/
>
> In look and feel it's more like javadoc. However always check the
> standard library documentation for usage and examples that might not be
> in this.
>
> Cheers,
> Shalabh
>
One of the entries for the object type is:
__init__(...)
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see x.__class__.__doc__ for signature...
How do we find the __doc__ in the epy material?
Colin W.
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