On Feb 1, 4:11 pm, Gnarlodious <gnarlodi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I run a script in bash and print out its docstrings to the bash > shell? I tried this at the end: > > print(help(__file__)) > > Runnig the script: > python ~/Sites/Sectrum/Harmonics.py > > but all it spit out was: > > no Python documentation found for '~/Sites/Sectrum/Harmonics.py' > > However in the interactive shell it prints out the class structure > nicely. What I really want to see is this output in the bash window.
The help() function prints the documentation itself itself (piping it to a pager if possible). It doesn't return the help text. If that's what you want, then probably the most foolproof way is: help(sys.modules[__name__]) This'll work whether it's a module or script. If you just want to print the documentation and bypass the pager, then I think something like this will do it: import pydoc print pydoc.render_doc(sys.modules[__name__]) Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
