Strange inspection from ?? on builtin class Exception's __init__
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Was trying to follow up on @Carreau's review on https://github.com/jupyter/nbconvert/pull/521/files to look at the source code that creates the Exception class' `__init__` to see what was going to be inherited.
This didn't work well using ipython magics…
specifically
`?Exception`, `Exception?`, `??Exception`, and `Exception??` (the order seems redundant but it ends up mattering) return
```python
Init signature: Exception(self, /, *args, **kwargs)
Docstring: Common base class for all non-exit exceptions.
Type: type
```
I.e., it didn't print the source, then I tried
`Exception.__init()??` and got a syntax error:
```python
Exception.__init__()??
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
```
While `??Exception.__init()`, `??Exception.__init`, and `Exception.__init??`worked without issue (though it still didn't return any source):
```python
Signature: Exception.__init__(self, /, *args, **kwargs)
Call signature: Exception.__init__(*args, **kwargs)
Type: wrapper_descriptor
String form:
Namespace: Python builtin
```
And I checked, the magic does work on some builtins (e.g., `str??`), but seemingly not the Exception class.
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