When using Idle, Call Tips are floating windows which display function, class, and method parameter and docstring information when you type an opening parenthesis, and which disappear when you type a closing parenthesis.
But when you use new-style classes, they don't work fine and don't show the arguments of the __init__ method. There is a topic in this newsgroup (new style classes and an IDLE "grump"), where a solution was given to the problem (in Mar 27 2002): > The solution seems to be simply changing line 115 in CallTips.py (in the > Tools/Idle/ directory) as folows: > > if type(ob)==types.ClassType: > > to > > if type(ob)==types.ClassType or type(ob) == types.TypeType: I've tried it (Python 2.4.1 - IDLE 1.1.1) and it works fine (CallTips was in the \Lib\idlelib directory for me). Why isn't this the default behaviour? Is this the right place to post this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
