Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 23 16:07:45 CEST 2013

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Le Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:51:27 +0200,
Walter Dörwald <walter at livinglogic.de> a écrit :
> On 23.09.13 15:38, Fred Drake wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Walter Dörwald
> > <walter at livinglogic.de> wrote:
> >> It would be great if the docstring contained a link to the online
> >> documentation.
> >
> > The docstring itself, or the presentation generated by help() ?
> 
> The presentation generated by help(), or the output of IPython's foo?
> or foo?? syntax.

Perhaps objects could gain some kind of optional __docurl__ attribute,
to avoid cluttering __doc__ with external links.
Not sure how that could be auto-generated, though (we certainly don't
want to maintain doc links manually).

Regards

Antoine.

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