Eko palypse wrote: > I've already sent this through mail yesterday but it doesn't appear here, > maybe because of the help word in the content. Please execute in case it > appears a second time. > > > Hello, > I'm creating a notepad++ plugin which hosts an embedded python interpreter > by using cffi to build the dll. So far so good. One obstacle I've found is > that I'm not able to use exec(help(object)) in order to get the wanted > info from the object. > > The error I get is: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<init code for 'Python3Script'>", line 131, in run_code > File "<string>", line 1, in <module> > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\_sitebuiltins.py", line 103, in > __call__ > return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds) > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\pydoc.py", line 1895, in __call__ > self.help(request) > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\pydoc.py", line 1954, in help > else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:', output=self._output) > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\pydoc.py", line 1674, in doc > pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload)) > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\pydoc.py", line 1451, in pager > pager(text) > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\pydoc.py", line 1576, in plainpager > sys.stdout.write(plain(_escape_stdout(text))) > File "D:\...\Python\Python37_64\Lib\pydoc.py", line 1528, in > _escape_stdout > return text.encode(encoding, 'backslashreplace').decode(encoding) > TypeError: encode() argument 1 must be str, not method
The traceback suggests that sys.stdout was replaced with a custom object that has a method stdout.encoding() rather than the expected stdout.encoding attribute of type str. > If I encase the object with quotes then I do get the info that no > documentation is found for that object. > > 1. It doesn't feel right to encase the object with quotes. I don't have to > do this using the standard python interpreter shell. What did I miss? > > 2. If it is needed to use the encased way, why don't it show the help > info? The object class contains the module, class and functions doc > strings, what did I miss here? > > Thank you > Eren -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
