[issue21309] Confusing "see also" for generic C-level __init__ methods in help output

2021-02-15 Thread Larry Hastings
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[issue21309] Confusing "see also" for generic C-level __init__ methods in help output

2021-02-15 Thread Irit Katriel
Irit Katriel added the comment: Still the same in 3.10: Python 3.10.0a5+ (heads/master:bf2e7e55d7, Feb 11 2021, 23:09:25) [MSC v.1928 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help(ImportError.__init__) Help on wrapper_descriptor:

[issue21309] Confusing see also for generic C-level __init__ methods in help output

2014-06-10 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I'm hoping that with Argument Clinic we can do better, but I haven't played with it so I'm not sure. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21309

[issue21309] Confusing see also for generic C-level __init__ methods in help output

2014-06-09 Thread Jacob Beck
Jacob Beck added the comment: I just got burned by this in io.StringIO, so I did a bit of looking. This was changed in r85710aa396ef in Objects/typeobject.c. The new revision makes as much sense as the old one, which wasn't helpful either and replaced an equally unhelpful revision at some

[issue21309] Confusing see also for generic C-level __init__ methods in help output

2014-04-18 Thread R. David Murray
New submission from R. David Murray: help(ImportError.__init__) Help on wrapper_descriptor: __init__(self, /, *args, **kwargs) Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature. The above also appears (without the wrapper_descriptor bit) in the help output for