Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Separating functionality into modules

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Sunday, Nov 17, 2002, at 02:03 Europe/Amsterdam, bb...@ma... wrote:
[removed the most interesting part of this e-mail :-)]

> In any case, it would seem that help(Foundation) and help(AppKit) 
> should really only document the functionality that we provide or 
> modify.  If something works exactly like it does in ObjC-- i.e. is a 
> part of the Foundation or AppKit APIs-- then the developer should go 
> straight to the source, I would think...?

I don't think we can do much about what help(Foundation) will show: The 
pydoc
module (where help is defined) performs introspection to generate 
documentation
for a module. I did notice that help(Foundation) and help(AppKit) use 
up quite
a lot of CPU time, but haven't checked if this is caused by 
inefficiencies in PyObjC or by the sheer size of those modules. If you 
use 'pydoc -w' on those modules you'll get enormous HTML files.

Ronald