Pierre, Thanks for the reply.
> Some context: the type of introspection I'm often wishing I could do > in a single, easy command usually has to do w/getting to know the > software better. dir? obj.__doc__ ? When I try the latter recommendation above w/numpy arrays, I get: In [1]: import numpy as N In [2]: a = N.array([1,2,3]) In [3]: a.__doc__? Type: NoneType Base Class: <type 'NoneType'> String Form: None Namespace: Interactive Docstring: <no docstring> Did you have something else in mind? Thx, --b _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion