Quoting TP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > d : > int(x[, base]) -> integer > > Convert a string or number to an integer, if possible. A floating point > argument will be truncated towards zero (this does not include a string > representation of a floating point number!) When converting a string, use > the optional base. It is an error to supply a base when converting a > non-string. If the argument is outside the integer range a long object > will be returned instead. > [...] > ####################### > > What is this default documentation? > Why?
What you are reading is not the 'default documentation', but the documentation for the 'int' type. Do help(5) and watch the result. The problem is that when you do help(yourobj.d) you are not asking for the help of the attribute named 'd' in yourobj. You are asking for the help of the object that the attribute named 'd' is bound to at that point. The same happens when you access help(yourobj.somefunction), with the only difference that in that particular case, you have a chance to specify a documentation for 'somefunction' and you are unlikely to change "somefunction"'s binding at runtime. So if you need to do something like: [warning: syntax is not valid] class A(object): age = 0 "stores the age of the person" #invalid syntax warning def blablah(self): pass a = A() help(a.age) a.age=7 help(a.age) and always get "stores the age of the person", I don't think python has any syntactical way of doing that. You could simulate it using properties, though (do a 'help(property)' to see an example), but I'm not sure if that will be a good solution. -- Luis Zarrabeitia Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list