In article <d95cc38a-70bf-44d5-b5d2-f9248c16c...@15g2000prz.googlegroups.com>, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >"Phillip M. Feldman" <pfeld...@verizon.net> wrote: >> It does seem as though IPython could be a bit more clever about this. =A0 > >I disagree. I _like_ that IPython is only reporting on the current >state of the interpreter and not trying to second guess what I meant. > >> If the user asks for documentation on xyz via "?xyz" and xyz is not >> defined, then I'd like to see IPython check for a module named "xyz" and >> if it exists, extract and display the docstring. > >How would you recommend IPython distinguish between which "xyz" you >meant: the one in site-packages, the one in some package on the python >path, or the one in the folder you're running IPython from?
Alternatively, it could state that "xyz" is not loaded, but could be loaded from one of the places you summarize. (Kind of what Ubuntu does: hack?, I have no "hack" but such command could be installed from BSD classical games. ) Groetjes Albert. -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
