On 06/21/2010 07:17 PM, Peng Yu wrote: > help(help) gives me the following explanation. > > [snip] > > I then looked at pydoc site. But I don't see an entry on help(). How > to figure out where help() (or a function in general) is defined?
>>> type(dir) <class 'builtin_function_or_method'> >>> type(help) <class 'site._Helper'> >>> help is not a function, it's an instance of site._Helper. It just "feels" like a function by being callable. You could create your own "help" callable simply by using the _Helper contructor: >>> import site >>> help2 = site._Helper() >>> -- Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
