help() on stdout.closed

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Jun 21 07:54:43 EDT 2006


Pekka Karjalainen wrote:

> Suppose I had no idea what sys.stdout.closed was and wanted to find out.
> Where would I look it up?

>>> help(sys.stdout)
...
 |  closed = <attribute 'closed' of 'file' objects>
 |      True if the file is closed
...

in case anyone feels like hacking, support for something like

>>> help(sys.stdout, "closed")

might be useful, I think.

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