I've updated onlinehelp.py with some nice new features built on cool code other people wrote. It's checked in. 1. Richard Chamberlain's wrote textdoc.py which builds on Ka-Ping Yee's inspect.py. Together, they allow me to get a lot more introspective information from modules and clsses even though they may not have docstrings. It will even use comments as docstrings. Thanks to Richard who wrote textdoc.py specifically for this purpose. >>> help( foo.__init__ ) | __init__(self, qName, namespaceURI='', localName=None) | no doc string 2. If you ask for help on a string that it doesn't "know about", it will attempt to import it. >>> help( "profile" ) | profile | Class for profiling Python code. | | Modules: | | marshal, os, sys, time | | Classes: | | class HotProfile(Profile): | | The fastest derived profile example. It does not calculate | caller-callee relationships, and does not calculate cumulative ... 3. It will also try to find the string as a sub-attr of a module. This part is really cool: >>> help( "xml.dom.minidom.AttributeList.items" ) (note that xml.dom.minidom is a package, AttributeList is a class, items, is a method) All features are available from the Unix or Windows command line: python onlinehelp.py xml.dom.minidom.AttributeList.items Have fun! The rest of the message is an example transcript. >>> help( "xml" ) <module 'xml' from 'c:\pysrc\python\dist\src\lib\xml\__init__.pyc'> Topic: help( <module 'xml' from 'c:\pysrc\python\dist\src\lib\xml\__init__.pyc'> ) | xml | Core XML support for Python. | | This package contains three sub-packages: | | dom -- The W3C Document Object Model. This supports DOM Level 1 + | Namespaces. | | parser -- Python wrappers for XML parsers (currently only supports Expat ). | | sax -- The Simple API for XML, developed by XML-Dev, led by David | Megginson and ported to Python by Lars Marius Garshol. This | supports the SAX 2 API. | | Modules: | | dom, sax >>> help( "xml.dom" ) <module 'xml.dom' from 'c:\pysrc\python\dist\src\lib\xml\dom\__init__.pyc'> Topic: help( <module 'xml.dom' from 'c:\pysrc\python\dist\src\lib\xml\dom\__init __.pyc'> ) | xml.dom | W3C Document Object Model implementation for Python. | | The Python mapping of the Document Object Model is documented in <...>. | | This package contains the following modules: | | minidom -- A simple implementation of the Level 1 DOM with namespace | support added (based on the Level 2 specification). | | Modules: | | minidom, pulldom >>> help( "xml.dom.minidom" ) <module 'xml.dom.minidom' from 'c:\pysrc\python\dist\src\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py' > | Topic: help( <module 'xml.dom.minidom' from 'c:\pysrc\python\dist\src\lib\xml\ dom\minidom.py'> ) | xml.dom.minidom | no doc string | | Modules: | | pulldom, string, types | | Classes: | | class Attr(Node): | | no doc string | | Methods: | | __init__(self, qName, namespaceURI='', localName=None, prefix=None) | no doc string | | __setattr__(self, name, value) | no doc string | | class AttributeList: | | the attribute list is a transient interface to the underlying --more-- (enter for more, q to quit) q 0 >>> help( "xml.dom.minidom.AttributeList" ) | Topic: help( xml.dom.minidom.AttributeList ) | class AttributeList: | | the attribute list is a transient interface to the underlying | dictionaries. mutations here will change the underlying element's | dictionary | | Methods: | | __cmp__(self, other) | no doc string | | __delitem__(self, attname_or_tuple) | no doc string | | __getitem__(self, attname_or_tuple) | #FIXME: is it appropriate to return .value? | | __init__(self, attrs, attrsNS) | no doc string | | __len__(self) | no doc string | | __setitem__(self, attname, value) --more-- (enter for more, q to quit) q >>> help( "xml.dom.minidom.AttributeList.items" ) Topic: help( <unbound method AttributeList.items> ) | items(self) | no doc string | 1 >>> -- Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus New from Computer Associates: "Software that can 'think', sold by marketers who choose not to."
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