On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:37:28PM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:22 AM Stephen J. Turnbull <
> stephenjturnb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Christopher Barker writes:
> >
> > > e.g.: what are the valid values?
> >
> > That's easy: MyEnum.__members__.
> >
>
> Seriously? you are arguing that Enums are better because they are self
> documenting, when you have to poke at a dunder to get the information ?!?
Seems pretty easy to me. It has to be a dunder, or a sunder at least,
because regular non-underscore names are reserved for the enumerations
themselves.
How do you programmatically get the information about which encoding
error handlers the `open` function takes?
I don't know how to get them programmatically, but today I learned how
to get them from the documentation:
* Start with help(open)
* Page down two pages.
* import codecs
* help(codecs.Codec)
That gives you the predefined error handlers, assuming the docs are up
to date. I still don't know how to find out what extra handlers have
been installed.
> I want to (in iPython) do:
>
> statistics.median?
>
> and see everything I need to know to use it
Okay, so if the API is (say) this:
def median(data, *, nans='ignore'):
...
will iPython give you a list of all the other possible strings that are
accepted? How does it know?
--
Steve
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