On Aug 11, 2:30 pm, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: > In the standard Python interactive interpreter, the string printed > by the help command when applied to a function includes the function's > formal signature. E.g.: > > >>> def foo(bar, *baz, **frobozz): > > ... pass > ...>>> help(foo) > > Help on function foo in module __main__: > > foo(bar, *baz, **frobozz) > > Here by "signature" I'm referring to the substring "bar, *baz, > **frobozz" shown above (or, equivalently, any other object from > which this string could be deduced). (I figured out that I can > retrieve this signature using methods in the inspect module.) > > OK, now, is there a way to modify a function so that pydoc (and > presumably also the interactive interpreter's help function, etc.) > will print out a desired specific signature for this function?
I think you'd have to modify pydoc. pydoc pulls this information out from the function's attributes (and maybe also it's underlying code object) which are read-only. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
