Robert Kern wrote:
> The one thing I dislike about PythonDoc is that it puts everything into
> comments and thus docstrings are usually neglected.
teaser:
>>> from elementtree import ElementTree
>>> help(ElementTree)
Help on module ElementTree:
NAME
ElementTree
DESCRIPTION
# ElementTree
# $Id: ElementTree.py 2324 2005-03-16 15:49:27Z fredrik $
#
# light-weight XML support for Python 1.5.2 and later.
...
CLASSES
Element
ElementTree
QName
TreeBuilder
XMLParser
iterparse
class Element
| Methods defined here:
|
| __delitem__(self, index)
|
| __delslice__(self, start, stop)
|
| __getitem__(self, index)
|
| __getslice__(self, start, stop)
...
>>> import pythondoc
>>> help(ElementTree)
Help on module ElementTree:
NAME
ElementTree
DESCRIPTION
The Element type is a flexible container object, designed to
store hierarchical data structures in memory.
CLASSES
Element
ElementTree
QName
TreeBuilder
XMLParser
iterparse
class Element
| Element class.
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __delitem__(self, index)
| Deletes the given subelement.
|
| __delslice__(self, start, stop)
| Deletes a number of subelements.
|
| __getitem__(self, index)
| Returns the given subelement.
|
| __getslice__(self, start, stop)
| Returns a list containing subelements in the given range.
...
now, if I could only motivate myself to write a PEP on adding a __help__
hook to pydoc, so that the "help" command can be taught to do this all by
itself...
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