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 > > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 > _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF > _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ > _jab: [email protected] > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
