__doc__ in interactive mode
rihad
rihad at mail.ru
Wed Jan 16 05:54:35 EST 2002
Hi there, I tried to follow GvR's advice for newbies to use the form
modname.funcname.__doc__ in case we're not sure how something works.
>>> print atexit.register.__doc__
register a function to be executed upon normal program termination
func - function to be called at exit
targs - optional arguments to pass to func
kargs - optional keyword arguments to pass to func
>>> `atexit.register.__doc__`
"'register a function to be executed upon normal program
termination\\n\\n fu
nc - function to be called at exit\\n targs - optional arguments to
pass to f
unc\\n kargs - optional keyword arguments to pass to func\\n '"
How come? Doesn't print use repr() (same as ``) for its output?
Other forms (atexit.register.__doc__, str(atexit.register.__doc__))
only differ by the number of backslashes (\n instead of \\n etc)
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