On 3/20/07, David Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And by the way - whenever I do a <function>.__doc__ all newline characters
> are printed as "\n" in the python console ... how do I change that?
The easiest way to access the doc strings is to type help(<function>)
in the python interpreter, or ?<function> in ipython
(<ipython.scipy.org>).
The reason you are seeing the escaped newlines is that by directly
accessing the __doc__ attribute, you are getting the string which the
interpreter is kind enough to display in repr form, but you are not
explicitly printing it (in str form). Compare:
>>> print repr('hello\nworld')
'hello\nworld'
>>> print str('hello\nworld')
hello
world
So that if you said print <function>.__doc__, you would not see the
escaped newlines.
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