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Fallback to shell 'help()' for docstring when jedi fails#1509

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@galaunay galaunay commented Dec 9, 2018

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 galaunay force-pushed the Gather-docstring-from-shell branch 3 times, most recently from 47ab2e0 to d25e23c Compare December 9, 2018 03:15
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Coverage decreased (-0.3%) to 85.155% when pulling 925756f on galaunay:Gather-docstring-from-shell into 2d4a968 on jorgenschaefer:master.

@galaunay galaunay force-pushed the Gather-docstring-from-shell branch from 2fdbd33 to 16cc289 Compare April 6, 2019 15:31
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galaunay commented May 5, 2019

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 galaunay force-pushed the Gather-docstring-from-shell branch from 925756f to 48197f4 Compare September 5, 2019 15:08
@galaunay galaunay force-pushed the master branch 4 times, most recently from c4a2564 to d974e00 Compare June 30, 2021 22:40
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