On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Trac ticket #6820 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6820) > makes the following change: > > sage: help() > > no longer runs the interactive Python help utility. Instead, it > prints a message: > > sage: help() > Welcome to Sage 4.2! To view the Sage tutorial in your web > browser, > type 'tutorial()', and to view the (very detailed) Sage reference > manual, > type 'manual()'. For help on any function, for example > 'matrix_plot', type > 'matrix_plot?' to see a help message, type 'browse_sage_doc > (matrix_plot)' > to view the same message in a web browser, and type > 'matrix_plot??' to look > at the function's source code. > > To use Python's online help utility, type 'python_help()'. > > (The ticket also implements the commands "tutorial", "manual", and > "python_help".) This is potentially a significant change, so I > thought I would bring it up for discussion. Is it a good idea? > > John
I use the following *all the time*: sage: import numpy sage: help(numpy) ... very nice numpy sage: numpy? .... totally different output from "help(numpy)"! 1. After your patch, if I type "help(numpy)" I get an error since your help takes no options. Why not make it work like before in that case? 2. If I read the above output that you added, I would never think to type python_help(numpy), since you write that I should "To use Python's online help utility, type 'python_help()'." -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
