I want to grab the docstring in my commandline application, but every time I call the builtin help() function, Python goes into interactive mode.
How do I get the docstring of an object and not have Python grab focus?
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I want to grab the docstring in my commandline application, but every time I call the builtin help() function, Python goes into interactive mode.
How do I get the docstring of an object and not have Python grab focus?
Any docstring is available through the
.__doc__property:In python 3, you’ll need parenthesis for printing: