11/24 Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net>: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Nick > <reply_to_is_va...@nowhere.com.invalid> wrote: >> I'm not sure I'm using pydoc correctly. I only seem to get abbreviated >> help rather than full documentation. It happens often enough that I think >> I'm doing something wrong. > >> I found the answer using google, but that won't work if I'm offline. Am I >> using pydoc correctly? Or is there a more complete language spec? > > pydoc just shows the docstrings. It does not include the full text of > the documentation. For that see > http://python.org/doc/ > > You can download the docs for offline use, see the above link. > > Kent > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - tu...@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
Although, iirc the online docs are generated by pydoc. It tells you that it calls value.__format__, so try $pydoc some_value.__format__ For example: $pydoc str.__format__ I don't have python installed here, so can't check it, but it might give you some more information. The same will happen if you try looking at the pydocs for, for example, str or repr: they are wrappers for magic methods on the object it is called with. -- Rich "Roadie Rich" Lovely There are 10 types of people in the world: those who know binary, those who do not, and those who are off by one. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
