On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:00 PM, McNeill, David (GE Commercial Finance)
wrote:
Hi,
I've only been playing with PythonWin (and Python) for a day, but
I'm very impressed, so far. One thing I can't figure out, though,
is how to get the Interactive Window to format the output of some
of the methods, such as __doc__. For instance, when I execute the line
dict.__doc__
I get the following for output
"dict() -> new empty dictionary.\ndict(mapping) -> new dictionary
initialized from a mapping object's\n (key, value) pairs.\ndict
(seq) -> new dictionary initialized as if via:\n d = {}\n for
k, v in seq:\n d[k] = v\ndict(**kwargs) -> new dictionary
initialized with the name=value pairs\n in the keyword argument
list. For example: dict(one=1, two=2)"
It's full of newline codes, but they are ignored, and they just
make it harder to read. Is there a way to correct this?
Thanks!
Dave
Dave,
In an interactive window try,
>>> help(dict)
or
>>> help(help)
also checkout pydoc
http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-pydoc.html
cheers,
Jim C. McDonald
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