[Python-Dev] Best practice for documentation for std lib (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Sep 23 17🔞22 CEST 2013


It would be great if the docstring contained a link to the online documentation. That would have to be a feature of help(), not hardcoded in each docstring.

That is a feature of the help function:

Help on built-in module sys:

help(sys) NAME sys

FILE (built-in)

MODULE DOCS http://docs.python.org/library/sys ...

(pydoc too, though I'm 99.9% sure they use the same underlying facility Ping originally implemented.)

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