My guess is that help(1) gets preparsed into help(Integer(1)).
help(int(1)) is different but not what you want.

John

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Martin Albrecht
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with a recent Sage
>
> sage: help(1)
>
> prints
>
> """
> Help on class EuclideanDomains.element_class in EuclideanDomains:
>
> EuclideanDomains.element_class = 1
> """
>
> which is remarkably unhelpful.
>
> If I recall correctly (I don't have an ancient enough copy of Sage handy to
> verify this), it used to provide a pretty neat summary of the class listing
> all methods and where they were inherited from.
>
> It seems the last time this function was touched was in
>
>    http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6820
>
> i.e. 18 months ago. Anybody got any idea what broke it from the top of the
> head?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
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