Re: How to get docstring of a function ?

[Ben Abbott]

On May 12, 2010, at 8:12 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> 2010/5/11 Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>:
>> tir, 11 05 2010 kl. 14:26 -0500, skrev Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
>>> 2010/5/11 Søren Hauberg <address@hidden>:
>>> 
>>>> Looking at your patch (I haven't tried it), I get the impression that
>>>> 
>>>>  a = help ("some_function");
>>>> 
>>>> will return the docstring, but also display it.
>>> 
>>> No, did you see the context? printf is actually used for displaying
>>> the docstring.
>> 
>> I'm confused now.
> 
> No, I was confused. I misunderstood what you meant. Reading Ben's
> patch, that looks like the right one.

Jordi/others,

Shall I push it.

Ben