Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> writes: >>>> __import__( 'sys' ).version > '3.6.1 |Anaconda 4.4.0 (x86_64)| (default, May 11 2017, 13:04:09) \n[GCC > 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.57)]' >>>> help( __import__( 'math' ).sin ) > > > Help on built-in function sin in module math: > > sin(...) > sin(x) > > Return the sine of x (measured in radians). > > > The help is actually not written out to the terminal but, displayed in > the pager (less), and the first sin(...) is typeset in boldface. > > Christian
Even simpler: >>> help(len) help(len) Help on built-in function len in module builtins: len(obj, /) Return the number of items in a container. both in python 3.6 and 3.7. This is weird. -- Piet van Oostrum <pie...@vanoostrum.org> WWW: http://piet.vanoostrum.org/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list