On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Hendrik van Rooyen schrieb: >> It starts with the conspiracy of silence at the interactive prompt: >> >> Python 2.4.3 (#69, Mar 29 2006, 17:35:34) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on >> win32 >> Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >> >> IDLE 1.1.3 ==== No Subprocess ==== >>>>> help(exec) >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> Its the same under Linux SuSe, Python 2.5.1. >> >> I think this is a BUG. > > No, it's the way exec is defined. exec is not a function, it's a > statement. "help(exec)" raises a syntax error like "help(if)" or > "help(while)" would raise a syntax error, too.
Indeed. Although it would happen to work in Python 3.0, as exec() became a function once again. Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
