On 6/21/2010 1:17 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
help(help) gives me the following explanation.
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Help on _Helper in module site object:
class _Helper(__builtin__.object)
| Define the built-in 'help'.
See 'built-in'?
| This is a wrapper around pydoc.help (with a twist).
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __call__(self, *args, **kwds)
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| __repr__(self)
|
|
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| Data descriptors defined here:
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| __dict__
| dictionary for instance variables (if defined)
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| __weakref__
| list of weak references to the object (if defined)
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I then looked at pydoc site.
Which is?
Lib Ref 2. Built-in Functions has entry
help([object])
Invoke the built-in help system. (This function is intended for
interactive use.) If no argument is given, the interactive help system
starts on the interpreter console. If the argument is a string, then the
string is looked up as the name of a module, function, class, method,
keyword, or documentation topic, and a help page is printed on the
console. If the argument is any other kind of object, a help page on the
object is generated.
This function is added to the built-in namespace by the site module.
Peruse the first 6 chapers of the Library Reference so you are familiar
with what is there. I use them pretty regularly.
Terry Jan Reedy
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