On Jan 12, 2006, at 12:00 PM, McNeill, David (GE Commercial Finance)  
wrote:

>  Hi,
> 
>  I've only been playing with PythonWin (and Python) for a day, but  
>  I'm very impressed, so far. One thing I can't figure out, though,  
>  is how to get the Interactive Window to format the output of some  
>  of the methods, such as __doc__. For instance, when I execute the line
> 
> >>> dict.__doc__
> 
>  I get the following for output
> 
>  "dict() -> new empty dictionary.\ndict(mapping) -> new dictionary  
>  initialized from a mapping object's\n    (key, value) pairs.\ndict 
>  (seq) -> new dictionary initialized as if via:\n    d = {}\n    for  
>  k, v in seq:\n        d[k] = v\ndict(**kwargs) -> new dictionary  
>  initialized with the name=value pairs\n    in the keyword argument  
>  list.  For example:  dict(one=1, two=2)"
> 
>  It's full of newline codes, but they are ignored, and they just  
>  make it harder to read. Is there a way to correct this?
> 
>  Thanks!
>  Dave
> 

Dave,

In an interactive window try,

 > >> help(dict)

or

 > >> help(help)

also checkout pydoc

http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-pydoc.html

cheers,
Jim C. McDonald
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