dynamically modify help text

Brian Blais bblais at bryant.edu
Mon Jun 28 20:23:46 EDT 2010


On Jun 28, 2010, at 14:25 , Chris Rebert wrote:

>> On Jun 27, 2010, at 22:37 , Red Forks wrote:
>>> Read you doc file and set the __doc__ attr of the object you want to
>>> change.
>>>
>
> __doc__ is normally defined on classes, e.g. `A`, not instances, e.g.
> `a`. help() looks for __doc__ accordingly.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris

so that gets back to my original question: can I change this text at  
runtime.  Doesn't look like I can, because it is defined for classes  
rather than instances.  Am I thinking about this correctly?


		bb


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