On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 16:24 -0700, James Stroud wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a python module I wrote in C some time ago and I have since > forgotten how to use my functions and so I wanted to add some > doc-strings such that "help(function_name)" would give some help in the > interactive interpreter. [...] Is it possible to > embed this information in the C source directly [...] ?
Yes. A doc-string can be provided in the fourth slot of the PyMethodDef entry. See e.g. /path/to/python/source/Modules/cPickle.c for a randomly chosen module that has doc strings embedded in the C source. HTH, -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
