There are already some questions touching this but no one seems to actually solve it.
import pydoc
hlpTxt = pydoc.render_doc(help)
already does what I want! looks flawless when printed to the (right) console but it has those extra characters included:
_\x08_H\x08He\x08el\x08lp\x08pe\x08er\x08r
In Maya for instance it looks like its filled up with ◘
-symbols! While help()
renders it flawless as well.
Removing \x08
leaves me with an extra letter each:
__HHeellppeerr
which is also not very useful. Someone commented that it works for him when piped to a subprocess or into a file. I also failed to do that already. Is there another way than
hlpFile = open('c:/help.txt', 'w')
hlpFile.write(hlpTxt)
hlpFile.close()
? Because this leaves me with the same problem. Notepad++ actually shows BS symbols at the places. Yes for backspace obwiously.
Anyway: There must be a reason that these symbols are added and removing them afterwards might work but I can't imagine there isn't a way to have them not created in the first place!
So finally is there another pydoc
method I'm missing? Or a str.encode/decode
thing I have not yet seen?
btw: I'm not looking for help.__doc__
!