On Jun 27, 2010, at 22:37 , Red Forks wrote:
Read you doc file and set the __doc__ attr of the object you want
to change.
On Monday, June 28, 2010, Brian Blais <bbl...@bryant.edu> wrote:
I know that the help text for an object will give a description of
every method based on the doc string. Is there a way to add
something to this text, specific to an object, but generated at
run-time? I have an object that reads a file, and I would like
part of that file to be shown if one does: help(myobject)
python file:
#=============
class A(object):
pass
help_text="this is some text"
a=A()
a.__doc__=help_text
#=============
in ipython:
shows up here:
In [5]:a?
Type: A
Base Class: <class '__main__.A'>
String Form: <__main__.A object at 0x13270f0>
Namespace: Interactive
File: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/5.0.0/
lib/python2.5/site-packages/IPython/FakeModule.py
Docstring:
this is some text
but not with the help command:
In [6]:help(a)
Help on A in module __main__ object:
class A(__builtin__.object)
| Data descriptors defined here:
|
| __dict__
| dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
|
| __weakref__
| list of weak references to the object (if defined)
also does the same thing with the regular python prompt.
is there a reason for this?
thanks,
Brian Blais
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