Re: Python mode and eldoc "freeze"

[John Sullivan]

Slawomir Nowaczyk <address@hidden> writes:

> Current code works fine for me with __builtins__... or did you mean
> "keywords"?
>

I mean built-in functions, like
http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html.

Running down that list now, some of them work and some of them don't.

For example, pow() and ord() work. open() and property() and reversed() do not.
I gather this is because the latter are classes in __builtin__, and so their
doc strings look different.

[...]

> On my machine, nothing is echoed for keywords. I don't use eldoc
> normally, though, so I do not know if it always used to work like this.
>
> What would you like to see displayed for things like import or except?
> The output of "help('import')" is pretty long... First sentence might
> make some sense, but I am not sure if it would be useful?
>

The Python Pocket Reference gives an abbreviated version of the grammar (from
the beginning of the docstrings) for import. Even that's a little long, so
maybe just "import module [, module]*..." would be good.

Unfortunately help("except") shows the documentation for try. Not sure what to
do about that one.

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