[issue21314] Bizarre help

2014-04-20 Thread Vedran Čačić
New submission from Vedran Čačić: Please look at the output of help(object.__ge__). 1. What's that $ in front of self? lt and gt don't have it. 2. What's that / as a third argument? Many wrapper functions have it (for example, see help(tuple.__len__). 3. What's that -- as the first line of

[issue21314] Bizarre help

2014-04-20 Thread Georg Brandl
Changes by Georg Brandl ge...@python.org: -- assignee: docs@python - larry nosy: +larry ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21314 ___

[issue21314] Bizarre help

2014-04-20 Thread Josh Rosenberg
Josh Rosenberg added the comment: I don't know about the other bits, but that trailing '/' is how Argument Clinic (which makes full featured inspection available to built-in functions) notes that the parameters are positional only, and cannot be passed by keyword. See PEP436. --

[issue21314] Bizarre help

2014-04-20 Thread Zachary Ware
Zachary Ware added the comment: 1) This was due to a typo. The release of Python 3.4 saw the introduction of new introspection information on many C-implemented functions thanks to Argument Clinic (see PEP 436, I think it is). As part of that (still ongoing) transition, the default doctrings

[issue21314] Bizarre help

2014-04-20 Thread Yury Selivanov
Changes by Yury Selivanov yselivanov...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +yselivanov ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21314 ___ ___