"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
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