On May 30, 8:54 am, Alan Isaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anand Patil wrote: > > If you're using IPython, you can do svd?? . > > http://www.scipy.org/doc/numpy_api_docs/numpy.linalg.linalg.html > > hth, > Alan Isaac
That wasn't a question :) In IPython, '<entity>?' is roughly equivalent to 'help(<entity>)', whereas '<entity>??' displays the code, if possible: IPython 0.8.2 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. ? -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features. %quickref -> Quick reference. help -> Python's own help system. object? -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more. In [1]: from functools import wraps In [2]: wraps?? Type: function Base Class: <type 'function'> String Form: <function wraps at 0x00CF31B0> Namespace: Interactive File: c:\python25\lib\functools.py Definition: wraps(wrapped, assigned=('__module__', '__name__', '__doc__'), updated=('__dict__',)) Source: def wraps(wrapped, assigned = WRAPPER_ASSIGNMENTS, updated = WRAPPER_UPDATES): """Decorator factory to apply update_wrapper() to a wrapper function Returns a decorator that invokes update_wrapper() with the decorated function as the wrapper argument and the arguments to wraps() as the remaining arguments. Default arguments are as for update_wrapper(). This is a convenience function to simplify applying partial() to update_wrapper(). """ return partial(update_wrapper, wrapped=wrapped, assigned=assigned, updated=updated) Which is very handy, like most of IPython. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list