[Tutor] How to Automatically generate a synopsis for a Module

Tim Johnson tim at johnsons-web.com
Tue Nov 28 03:30:22 CET 2006


 <blush> Amazing what google can do</blush>
 I think pydoc does it all...
 pydoc -p 1234 sets up the server what what I need.
 Never mind! :-)
 tim

* Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> [061127 17:24]:
> Hello: 
> If I start the python interpreter, then import a file, and
> type 
> help(module_name_here)
> Documentation about the module is displayed in detail.
> 
> I would like to write a python script that 
> Searches for all python scripts in a directory, and
> extracts (initially) the description for each script as
> a string so that I can print to stdout.
> 
> IOWS:
> I want to extract what help(module) would display in
> the python interpreter.
> 
> Any ideas? :-) 
> TIA
> tim
> 
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