On 6/14/2012 6:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Just a thought: Do we want to include the docstring? A function's
> docstring is often intimately tied to its signature. (Or at least, a
> lot of us try to write docstrings that effectively describe the
> function's signature)
No, combining the signature with other details like the name and
docstring is the task of higher level interfaces like pydoc.
Idle tooltips are potentially two lines: the signature and the first
line of the docstring. (Some builtins need a better first line, but
thats another issue.)
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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