"J. Clifford Dyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How do you interpret: >> >> >>> help(__import__) >> Help on built-in function __import__ in module __builtin__: >> >> __import__(...) >> __import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) -> >> module >> ... >> >>> help(int) >> Help on class int in module __builtin__: >> >> class int(object) >> | int(x[, base]) -> integer >> ... >> >> Can you find any case (other than a single parameter identified as >> 'object') where you can interpret the help string as telling you the >> types of the parameters? > > OK, good point. Perhaps it's not so specific as the type, but > certainly the use of name and x in the docstrings listed above only > imply something about the character of the argument, not the name of > the argument itself, which is what I was trying to get at. Help > documentation for keyword arguments usually shows the argument being > used as a keyword, like the example from __import__ above.
Usually, but not in the second example I gave: >>> int(base=12, x='42') 50 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list