[issue46142] python --help output is too long

Éric Araujo added the comment: It seems that preconfig is only for some options that change fundamental behaviour (isolated mode, default encoding), so I should be able to detect and handle '-X help' in initconfig. -- ___ Python tracker <ht

[issue46142] python --help output is too long

Éric Araujo added the comment: Question about the implementation: I’ve found the parsing of command-line params in Python/initconfig.c and Python/preconfig.c. Help is handled in initconfig, X options in preconfig. A) could add a value to the right struct for "-X help", set it in

[issue46142] python --help output is too long

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: I think that the man page should contain all details related to the CLI (and may be even some examples). -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue46142] python --help output is too long

Éric Araujo added the comment: Do people think the man page should be shortened too? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue40296] help(list[int]) fails

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +28474 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30253 ___ Python tracker

[issue46142] python --help output is too long

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[issue46142] python --help output is too long

Éric Araujo added the comment: Forgot to quote -X help to print help about X options. -- components: +Interpreter Core ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue46

[issue46142] python --help output is too long

tion, and 30% about environment variables. Also some lines in the -X option description are too long (102 columns). Both topics are "advanced" and mostly interested for debugging. I suggest to move them out of the main help output. […] Guido: -X opt : implementation-specifi

[issue35228] Index search in CHM help crashes viewer

Charles G. added the comment: My previous Windows version (Win 10 1803) does not have this crashing problem. It only crashed after upgrading to 21H1. So I replaced hhctrl.ocx in system32 (Win 10 21H1) with hhctrl.ocx from Windows.old. 2019/03/19 11:45 696.320 hhctrl.ocx

[issue38584] argparse: Specifying a whitespace-only help message to a positional arg triggers an IndexError when displaying --help

Lucas Cimon added the comment: This was resolved by https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/28050 -- message_count: 4.0 -> 5.0 pull_requests: +28366 status: open -> closed pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/28050 ___ Python tracker

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

Irit Katriel added the comment: Nesting argument groups and mutually exclusive groups is now deprecated (see issue22047). Thank you for the bug report. -- stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue46080] argparse.BooleanOptionalAction with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help specified raises exception

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[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

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[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

Irit Katriel added the comment: New changeset f0b274d2e21e6c7c1c0f56464070108f9bd00d20 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': bpo-26952: [argparse] clearer error when formatting an empty mutually… (GH-30099) (GH-30115)

[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

Irit Katriel added the comment: New changeset 8e4c96295bd78ae5f70b908e5dbac0da7c4c21bd by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.10': bpo-26952: [argparse] clearer error when formatting an empty mutually… (GH-30099) (GH-30114)

[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

Change by miss-islington : -- pull_requests: +28337 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30115 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

Irit Katriel added the comment: New changeset 86de99588db3beff964137f4fe27dd1077a09b35 by Irit Katriel in branch 'main': bpo-26952: [argparse] clearer error when formatting an empty mutually… (GH-30099) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/86de99588db3beff964137f4fe27dd1077a09b35

[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

Change by miss-islington : -- nosy: +miss-islington nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 pull_requests: +28336 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30114 ___ Python tracker

[issue46080] argparse.BooleanOptionalAction with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help specified crashes

Irit Katriel added the comment: Changing type. Crash is typically segfault or hang in c code rather than an exception. -- nosy: +iritkatriel type: crash -> behavior ___ Python tracker

[issue46080] argparse.BooleanOptionalAction with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help specified crashes

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[issue46080] argparse.BooleanOptionalAction with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help specified crashes

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[issue46080] argparse.BooleanOptionalAction with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help specified crashes

New submission from Felix Fontein : When argparse.BooleanOptionalAction is used with default=argparse.SUPPRESS and help is specified, trying to display --help results in a crash. Reproducer: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('--test', action

[issue26952] argparse help formatter raises IndexError

Change by Irit Katriel : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +iritkatriel nosy_count: 6.0 -> 7.0 pull_requests: +28321 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30099 ___ Python tracker

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

Irit Katriel added the comment: You’re right that the api should not be there. See issue22047. I don’t think it should be patches to call super/return self. That would just be confusing. -- resolution: -> duplicate superseder: -> argparse improperly prints mutually exclusive

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

László Attila Tóth added the comment: my idea regarding _ArgumentGroup,add_argument_group is in the attached file. This doesn't solve the complete help output issue, but addresses the incorrectly called _ArgumentGroup.add_argument_group - a warn() call and return self. As a result the help

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset 80f98b1614cc8e58d8a5ec72c94d27f663e23035 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.9': [3.10] bpo-27718: Fix help for the signal module (GH-30063) (GH-30080) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/80f98b1614cc8e58d8a5ec72c94d27f663e23035

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset e55deaabd8de338138cf29aea6890996e794c997 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.10': [3.10] bpo-27718: Fix help for the signal module (GH-30063) (GH-30080) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e55deaabd8de338138cf29aea6890996e794c997

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Change by miss-islington : -- nosy: +miss-islington nosy_count: 7.0 -> 8.0 pull_requests: +28305 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30084 ___ Python tracker

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- pull_requests: +28301 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30080 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset e08c0d8eec528f1d7a282ee19bcadb9aae9ec123 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'main': bpo-27718: Fix help for the signal module (GH-30063) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e08c0d8eec528f1d7a282ee19bcadb9aae9ec123

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

László Attila Tóth added the comment: According to the documentation only the ArgumentParser has add_argument_group option, which is not true, the code allows me to add a subgroup to any group. The complete example is in issue 4608: https://bugs.python.org/issue46058 If add_argument_group

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

dd_argument_group('Database settings') >>> grp.add_argument('--db-config') _StoreAction(option_strings=['--db-config'], dest='db_config', nargs=None, const=None, default=None, type=None, choices=None, help=None, metavar=None) >>> xgrp = parser.add_argument_group() >>> xgrp.add_argume

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

László Attila Tóth added the comment: The fix is something like this for _ArgumentGroup, but as the container may not be an _ArgumentGroup, it breaks the tests. --- Lib/argparse.py +++ Lib/argparse.py @@ -1635,9 +1640,13 @@ def __init__(self, container, title=None, description=None,

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

László Attila Tóth added the comment: And the leading part is the same for both the mutually exclusive and the argument groups: usage: test1.py [-h] [--db-config DB_CONFIG] [--db-password DB_PASSWORD] optional arguments: -h, --helpshow this help message and exit Database

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

László Attila Tóth added the comment: Sorry, these are two bugs in fact. The current one, the help with minmal code: import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() grp = parser.add_argument_group('Database settings') grp.add_argument('--db-config') xgrp = grp.add_argument_group

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

Irit Katriel added the comment: Please complete the bug report: How did you run this function, what output did you get and what output did you expect? -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker

[issue46057] argparse: embedded groups may prevent options from being in help output

New submission from László Attila Tóth : I tried to use the following code where the --db-password is not shown in the --help output (Originally I wanted to use mutually exclusive groups but that feature also works strangely, so I changed them to regular groups). def register_db_args(parser

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: This is due to use functools.wraps(). If __all__ is not defined all non-builtin functions should have correct __module__ to be displayed by pydoc. functools.wraps() assigns __module__, __name__, __qualname__, __doc__ and __annotations__. __module__ should

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Change by Serhiy Storchaka : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +serhiy.storchaka nosy_count: 6.0 -> 7.0 pull_requests: +28283 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/30063 ___ Python tracker

[issue27718] help('signal') incomplete (e.g: signal.signal not visible)

Change by Irit Katriel : -- versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.9 -Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17890] argparse: mutually exclusive groups full of help-suppressed args can cause AssertionErrors

Irit Katriel added the comment: I'm unable to reproduce this problem on 3.11: >>> import argparse >>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() >>> group = parser.add_mutually_exclusive_group() >>> group.add_argument('--spam', help=argparse.SUPPRESS) _StoreAc

Re: help

Hi, On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 10:31 AM smita wrote: > > > >I am not able to open python on my laptop plzz help What do you mean by saying "open python"? Thank you. > > > >Sent from [1]Mail for Windows > > > > References > >Visible l

Re: help

On 12/9/21 03:39, smita wrote: I am not able to open python on my laptop plzz help You're going to have to provide some details. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

help

  I am not able to open python on my laptop plzz help   Sent from [1]Mail for Windows   References Visible links 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: In Python 3.10, classmethod() added a __wrapped__ attribute. Presumably, any use case for implicit chaining can now be accomplished in an explicit and controlled manner. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Irit Katriel added the comment: Christian - that's what it was. I uninstalled cffi and now it works. -- resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Stephen Rosen added the comment: Probably >90% of the use-cases for chaining classmethod are a read-only class property. It's important enough that some tools (e.g. sphinx) even have special-cased support for classmethod(property(...)). Perhaps the general case of

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Christian Heimes added the comment: The easiest way is to remove and rebuild 3rd party software. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Irit Katriel added the comment: How do I check that? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Christian Heimes added the comment: This looks like an issue with 3rd party software cffi. Are you using a fresh build of cffi? The internal ABI of an alpha build changes very often. -- nosy: +christian.heimes ___ Python tracker

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Irit Katriel added the comment: * thread #1, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=1, address=0x0) frame #0: 0x00010015fd26 python.exe`_PyObject_GenericGetAttrWithDict(obj=0x00013feb7a50, name=0x000100fe9350, dict=0x, suppress=0)

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Erlend E. Aasland added the comment: I'm unable to reproduce on macOS 11.6 as well (head at 49444fb807ecb396462c8e5f547eeb5c6bc5d4de). -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Erlend E. Aasland added the comment: Also unable to reproduce with HEAD at 8a45ca542a65ea27e7acaa44a4c833a27830e796. Perhaps it is related to your build/dev environment? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Irit Katriel added the comment: I'm using MacOS 11.6. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Erlend E. Aasland added the comment: Also unable to reproduce with HEAD at 49444fb807ecb396462c8e5f547eeb5c6bc5d4de. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Erlend E. Aasland added the comment: Unable to reproduce on macOS 12 with latest 3.11 official build, and my most recent dev build (HEAD at b394af13f69c1a2ac0e7d32dabf6d86443606ab2). -- nosy: +erlendaasland ___ Python tracker

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Mark Shannon added the comment: When I say "cffi bug", I should say "is cffi not ported to 3.11 yet?" -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Mark Shannon added the comment: Works for me on Ubuntu. Python 3.11.0a2+ (heads/main:0aa0bd0563, Dec 1 2021, 11:39:40) [GCC 9.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help("modules&qu

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Irit Katriel added the comment: It's failing in this assertion which was added in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/28802 : https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8a45ca542a65ea27e7acaa44a4c833a27830e796/Objects/object.c#L1305 -- nosy: +Mark.Shannon

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Irit Katriel added the comment: It works for me on 3.10. -- keywords: +3.11regression ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS

Change by Irit Katriel : -- title: help("modules") segfaults on 3.11 -> help("modules") segfaults on 3.11, MacOS ___ Python tracker <https://

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11

Irit Katriel added the comment: On the debugger: >>> help("modules") Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules... /Users/iritkatriel/src/cpython/Lib/pkgutil.py:92: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal

[issue45941] help("modules") segfaults on 3.11

New submission from Irit Katriel : Python 3.11.0a2+ (heads/main:8a45ca542a, Nov 30 2021, 22:40:56) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> help("module

[issue22656] `help` ignores `__doc__` of descriptors

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: This was fixed long ago in commit ac4bdcc80e986bdd5b9d10ab0bce35aabb790a3e The code is in inspect.py::_finddoc(). See issue 25503. -- nosy: +rhettinger resolution: -> out of date stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed

[issue22656] `help` ignores `__doc__` of descriptors

Irit Katriel added the comment: I am unable to reproduce the problem on 3.11 (on a Mac). I get both help messages from Ram's code. -- nosy: +iritkatriel ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue22

[issue23217] help() function incorrectly captures comment preceding a nested function

Irit Katriel added the comment: Reproduced on 3.11. -- nosy: +iritkatriel versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.9 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Alex Waygood added the comment: It makes me sad that the stdlib will no longer provide a way to compose classmethods with other descriptors. However, I agree that deprecating classmethod chaining is probably the correct course of action, given the complications this feature has caused, and

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

property in a classmethod doesn't produce something that behaves like a real property. Mixing staticmethod and property doesn't work at all. Putting abstractmethod in the mix doesn't work well either. The ecosystem of code inspection tools, like help() in this issue, is wholly unprepared

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Also see: https://bugs.python.org/issue42073 The classmethod pass through broke some existing code and the "fix" for it looks dubious: if hasattr(type(self.f), '__get__'): return self.f.__get__(cls, cls) --

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

Change by STINNER Victor : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset 9d3271438431c37c29c359f5b73e8094b5f82912 by Victor Stinner in branch 'main': bpo-45745: Remove regrtest --findleaks options (GH-29514) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9d3271438431c37c29c359f5b73e8094b5f82912 --

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

STINNER Victor added the comment: To check for reference leaks, memory leaks and file descriptor leaks: --huntrleaks/-R should be used. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

STINNER Victor added the comment: In Python 3.6, regrtest failed if --findleaks was used and gc.garbage was not empty after a test completed. I modified regrtest to always run this check: --findleaks is now ignored. But I also modified --findleaks to make it an alias to the

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

Change by STINNER Victor : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +27766 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29514 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

Irit Katriel added the comment: That's probably why --findleaks was deprecated (in 3.8, PR12951). We could remove it now. + vstinner -- nosy: +iritkatriel, vstinner ___ Python tracker

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

Skip Montanaro added the comment: Thanks, I get that. My issue is with the apparent mismatch between the English meaning of "find leaks" and "fail env changed." It seems to me that the help message(s) for one or both of those options is probably incorrect and

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Éric Araujo added the comment: I think that second PR was linked using the GitHub PR link field present in the bug comment form. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: PR-29419 solves the issue in #45717 of not giving a link for _* modules with no doc. It does not solve this issue of giving the proper link for module that need non-standard links, which typically need a '#' suffix, as in

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Change by Zachary Ware : -- pull_requests: +27713 stage: test needed -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29459 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

Dennis Sweeney added the comment: IIUC you're looking for --huntrleaks/-R, not the unrelated --findleaks/-l: In that -m test -h menu: -l, --findleaks deprecated alias to --fail-env-changed -R RUNCOUNTS, --huntrleaks RUNCOUNTS search for reference leaks

[issue45745] ./python -m test --help output for refleaks seems wrong

New submission from Skip Montanaro : Just preparing to make a refleaks test run, so I ran: ./python -m test --help The output related to refleaks seemed suspicious: ... Special runs: -l, --findleaks deprecated alias to --fail-env-changed ... --fail-env-changedif a test file

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Zachary Ware added the comment: This actually turned out to be less effort than I expected (though I still should have been asleep 2 hours ago), so I've gone ahead and opened GH-29419 to implement what I suggested. -- stage: patch review -> test needed

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Change by Zachary Ware : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +27672 stage: test needed -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29419 ___ Python tracker

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Joshua added the comment: I think that option 4 would work best but instead of putting any logic in (Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py)[https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py] we could put the logic for working with private modules as well and other edge cases in

[issue45717] Bad link to python docs in help(_hashlib)

/_hashopenssl.c. -- nosy: +zach.ware resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?) ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Zachary Ware added the comment: Option 4: generate a list of modules (or a mapping of module names to documentation files) that have documentation when generating Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py, and teach pydoc.help to not include the link when it knows the module doesn't have documentation.

[issue45717] Bad link to python docs in help(_hashlib)

New submission from Joshua : I was attempting to look through hashlib to try and understand more about python's built-in hash functions. As part of this, I ran 'help(_hashlib)' which returns this text: 'MODULE REFERENCE https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/_hashlib.html

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Graham Dumpleton added the comment: Too much to grok right now. There is already a convention for what a decorator wraps. It is __wrapped__. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3405792b024e9c6b70c0d2355c55a23ac84e1e67/Lib/functools.py#L70 Don't use __func__ as that has other defined

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

wim glenn added the comment: added Graham Dumpleton to nosy list in case he has some useful insight here, I think the PR from issue19072 may have been adapted from grahamd's patch originally? -- nosy: +grahamd ___ Python tracker

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: I've looked more into it, the issue is that even before an object can be tested with `isinstance()`, both inspect.classify_class_attrs and in pydoc, classdoc local function `spill()` use a `getattr()` call, which triggers the property. So I think my PR is

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: I missed that this is assigned to Raymond, hope we didn't duplicate any effort (it only took me a short while to do the PR). Apologies.. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: I've put up a PR; I'm not sure it's the best way to fix it. I will look more into it and will try to post some details about the PR later today. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue45356] Calling `help` executes @classmethod @property decorated methods

Change by Andrei Kulakov : -- keywords: +patch nosy: +andrei.avk nosy_count: 8.0 -> 9.0 pull_requests: +27502 stage: test needed -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29239 ___ Python tracker

[issue45275] Make argparse print description of subcommand when invoke help doc on subcommand

paul j3 added the comment: Are you expecting the subcommand help to show the 'help' line that the main help shows? subparsers.add_parser('a', help='a help') add_parser takes all of the parameters that `ArgumentParser` takes, including description and epilog. I don't think we need

[issue45275] Make argparse print description of subcommand when invoke help doc on subcommand

Hai Shi added the comment: Hi, Chuanlong. Would you mind to upload a demo for this question? -- nosy: +shihai1991 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue45275] Make argparse print description of subcommand when invoke help doc on subcommand

Andrei Kulakov added the comment: For me it works as well, tested on 3.7, 3.9 and 3.11 . -- nosy: +andrei.avk ___ Python tracker ___

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Éric Araujo added the comment: Option 3 seems simple and ok to me. -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue40051] Give proper link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: As the title suggested, this is a generic help(module) issue that involves several library modules, including idlelib. It just happened to be reported for 2to3. For example, the generated text for import idlelib; help(idlelib) includes MODULE

[issue40051] Dead link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?)

patch status: closed -> open superseder: Close 2to3 issues and list them here -> title: Dead link in help(lib2to3/idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?) -> Dead link in help(idlelib/turtledemo/tkinter.sub/test_*/?) versions: +Python 3.11 -Python 3.8 ___

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