New submission from thp t...@thpinfo.com:
If I want to get help on a method on a built-in class (e.g. list or str) I can
use the help function in the interactive shell:
help(str.split)
help(list.append)
However, when I try to do the same with the command-line utility pydoc it
does not work:
$ pydoc str.split
What does work with the pydoc command is that I use the following command and
then search for the function in the resulting output:
$ pydoc str # after that, manually search for split
I've created a patch against Python 2.6's pydoc.py that tries to iteratively
look up methods in builtins. This keeps the previous behavior as-is, but will
give positive results in the cases listed above.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: pydoc_builtin-classmethods.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 141494
nosy: thp
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: pydoc str.split does not find the method
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22817/pydoc_builtin-classmethods.patch
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