Nick Coghlan added the comment: After reviewing Sanyam's PR at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/172 I ended up rejecting it as an approach to resolving this issue.
The core problem with the approach is that accessing `_sitebuiltins._Helper` is an implementation detail twice over: - Python implementations aren't required to have a _sitebuiltins module - that module isn't required to contain a _Helper class That means importing it into a general purpose module like pydoc would couple pydoc specifically to the way CPython works, which is something we try to avoid doing. By contrast, a richer `__help__()` protocol to override the `__doc__` based default behaviour would allow any object to implement it, and _sitebuiltins._Helper could just use that protocol to special case itself. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13691> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
