From: Ka-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:57:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use inspect.stack()[1][3] to tell if Helper.__repr__ is called interactively.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1c1~29
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9bc576b7f6fa4bbe726255666ac7e5728f1d678b;p=python

Use inspect.stack()[1][3] to tell if Helper.__repr__ is called interactively.
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diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 5f372258c1..ee9177d7e1 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -1268,10 +1268,10 @@ class Helper:
                 self.docdir = dir
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        if len(inspect.stack()) <= 2:
+        if inspect.stack()[1][3] == '?':
             self()
             return ''
-        return '<pydoc.Helper instance at %p>' % id(self)
+        return '<pydoc.Helper instance>'
 
     def __call__(self, request=None):
         if request is not None: