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On Monday, June 25, 2012 11:57:39 PM UTC-7, Peter Otten wrote:
> > 
> > There is nothing in the documentation (that I have found) that points to
> > this solution. 
> 
> That's because I "invented" it.
> 

Oh bother. The lines I completely overlooked were in your __getattr__ override.

Boy is my face red.

On further experimentation, adding a do_xxx command without the decorator still works...ish. The undecorated do_xxx is still considered to have a help function, and it prints the raw docstring (instead of using the show_help method to clean it up).

Josh