On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>
> However, robustness probably needs to be improved:
Agreed.
> Wasn't there even a proposal that
>
> >>> help
>
> should do something meaningful (by implementing __repr__)?
There was. I am planning to incorporate Paul Prescod's mechanism
for doing this; i just didn't have time to throw in that feature
yet, and wanted feedback on the man-like stuff first.
My next two targets are:
1. Generating text from the HTML documentation files
using Paul Prescod's stuff in onlinehelp.py.
2. Running a background HTTP server that produces its
pages using htmldoc.py.
Both are pieces we already have and only need to integrate; i just
wanted to get at least a working candidate done first.
Did using pydoc like "man" work okay for you?
> >>> import string
> >>> help(string)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
...
> TypeError: arg is a built-in class
Mine doesn't do this for me. I think i may have left up an older version
of inspect.py by mistake. Try downloading
http://www.lfw.org/python/inspect.py
again -- apologies for the hassle.
> Also, the tools could use some command line options:
>
> martin@mira:~/pydoc > ./pydoc.py --help
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "./pydoc.py", line 190, in ?
> opts[args[i][1:]] = args[i+1]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
> At a minimum, I propose -h, --help, -v, -V.
Okay. There is usage help already; i just failed to make it sufficiently
robust about deciding when to show it.
skuld[1010]% pydoc
/home/ping/bin/pydoc <name> ...
Show documentation on something.
<name> may be the name of a Python function, module,
package, or a dotted reference to a class or function
within a module or module in a package.
/home/ping/bin/pydoc -k <keyword>
Search for a keyword in the short descriptions of modules.
-- ?!ng
"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on a
really big heap of midgets."
-- K. Eric Drexler
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