Re: [Python-Dev] Strange "help(int.__lt__)". Probably documentation bug

2014-11-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 27 November 2014 at 23:43, Jesus Cea wrote: > On 27/11/14 13:42, Victor Stinner wrote: >> 2014-11-27 13:41 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : >>> I am amused about the "/)" suffix in the signature. It happens to all >>> magic methods. >> >> If I remember correctly, it means that the function does not

Re: [Python-Dev] Strange "help(int.__lt__)". Probably documentation bug

2014-11-27 Thread Jesus Cea
On 27/11/14 13:42, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2014-11-27 13:41 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : >> I am amused about the "/)" suffix in the signature. It happens to all >> magic methods. > > If I remember correctly, it means that the function does not accept keywords: I don't understand. Is that internal

Re: [Python-Dev] Strange "help(int.__lt__)". Probably documentation bug

2014-11-27 Thread Victor Stinner
2014-11-27 13:41 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : > I am amused about the "/)" suffix in the signature. It happens to all > magic methods. If I remember correctly, it means that the function does not accept keywords: >>> (3).__lt__(4) True >>> (3).__lt__(value=4) Traceback (most recent call last): F

Re: [Python-Dev] Strange "help(int.__lt__)". Probably documentation bug

2014-11-27 Thread Victor Stinner
2014-11-27 13:41 GMT+01:00 Victor Stinner : > 2014-11-27 13:28 GMT+01:00 Jesus Cea : >> http://bugs.python.org/issue20530#msg231584 > > Copy/paste of the message: > > Preparing a presentation about Python Magic methods I found something > weird: (Python 3.4) > > """ help(int.__lt__) > Help on

Re: [Python-Dev] Strange "help(int.__lt__)". Probably documentation bug

2014-11-27 Thread Victor Stinner
2014-11-27 13:28 GMT+01:00 Jesus Cea : > http://bugs.python.org/issue20530#msg231584 Copy/paste of the message: Preparing a presentation about Python Magic methods I found something weird: (Python 3.4) """ >>> help(int.__lt__) Help on wrapper_descriptor: __lt__(self, value, /) <- THIS!! Re