Re: How to get docstring of a function ?

[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 don't know what to do about argumentless help, though. I kinda like
the idea of a table of contents but I also like manpages and concise
documentation.