New submission from Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com>:
Currently, IDLE just writes the entire help message into the shell. If auto-squeezing is enabled, then long help messages are automatically squeezed, following which the help text can be viewed in a text viewer or expanded inline. This is still not great UX. I propose to simply have help(object) open a text viewer with the help text. There's actually an old (2007) comment in Lib\idlelib\pyshell.py by KBK that this should be done. See related discussion in issue #35855. ---------- assignee: taleinat components: IDLE messages: 349073 nosy: taleinat, terry.reedy priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: IDLE: Show help(object) output in a text viewer type: enhancement versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue37768> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
