help() on stdout.closed

[Fredrik Lundh]

Pekka Karjalainen wrote:

>>>> from sys import stdout
>>>> help (stdout.closed)
>
> If I do this, it gives me help on the bool object.

that's probably because "sys.stdout.closed" *is* a bool object:

>>> sys.stdout.closed
False
>>> type(sys.stdout.closed)
<type 'bool'>

there's no way the reflection system can figure out how a given boolean was
created; all it knows is that it gets an object of a given type.

> Other docstrings in sys.stdout work fine.

have you tried things like

>>> help(sys.stdout.name)

and

>>> help(sys.stdout.write("hello"))

?

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