[issue40646] Builtins in doc show signature in documentation

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I would probably prefer the table without the '()'s. (I would have to see to be sure.) However, the entries in the source .rst are all tagged with ':func:', as in ":func:`abs`", and that tag both adds "()" and makes the entries click-linked to the entries

[issue40646] Builtins in doc show signature in documentation

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[issue40646] Builtins in doc show signature in documentation

Eric V. Smith added the comment: "message signatures" -> "function signatures" -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue40646] Builtins in doc show signature in documentation

Eric V. Smith added the comment: It's a common convention to show a function with parens, even if it can't be called with no arguments. I don't think we want to make that table visually more complex by including all of the message signatures. open() has 8 params, min() and max() have

[issue40646] Builtins in doc show signature in documentation

New submission from Henk-Jaap Wagenaar : Due to a certain discussion on extending zip, I was having looking at this page: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html It lists the builtins at the top as e.g. all() which I think is confusing: running all() will actually fail. I think it