Op 2017-09-26, Stefan Ram schreef <r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de>: > What happened? I woke up today in parens mood. So I typed: > > import( operator ) > > Python told me that I should type: > > import operator > > . Fine, Python conditioned me to omit the parens. > So now I was in noparens mood. So I typed: > > help operator > > . Oops!
The explanation is of course that `import` is a syntactic keyword and `help` is an ordinary function. But if you want to be lazy, you can use the `ipython` interpreter (https://ipython.org) with the %autocall feature... $ ipython Python 3.6.2 (default, Aug 3 2017, 16:08:52) Type 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information IPython 6.2.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python. Type '?' for help. In [1]: %autocall Automatic calling is: Smart In [2]: help help Help on _Helper in module _sitebuiltins object: class _Helper(builtins.object) <snip> Stephan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
