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Fallback to shell 'help()' for docstring when jedi fails

Open galaunay opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

PR Summary

Follow #1507. When jedi fails to provide documentation, use the shell help() function to try to get the docstring.

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galaunay avatar Dec 09 '18 03:12 galaunay

Coverage Status

Coverage decreased (-0.3%) to 85.155% when pulling 925756f5b8990b9272e0de73bab808cf22355b4f on galaunay:Gather-docstring-from-shell into 2d4a968e8fe04e6ad099c526349633105a38f608 on jorgenschaefer:master.

coveralls avatar Dec 09 '18 03:12 coveralls

Note to myself: pydoc seems to be confused from time to time with python2.7. Maybe we should provide this only for python > 3 ?

galaunay avatar May 05 '19 11:05 galaunay