[sage-devel] Re: "help()" in Sage

2009-10-27 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 27, 11:38 am, Jason Grout wrote: > slabbe wrote: > > Hi, > > > On Oct 27, 12:37 am, John H Palmieri 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 uti

[sage-devel] Re: "help()" in Sage

2009-10-27 Thread Jason Grout
slabbe wrote: > Hi, > > On Oct 27, 12:37 am, John H Palmieri 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. > > +1, but I personally would like help(MODU

[sage-devel] Re: "help()" in Sage

2009-10-27 Thread slabbe
Hi, On Oct 27, 12:37 am, John H Palmieri 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. +1, but I personally would like help(MODULE) to still work. Sébastien

[sage-devel] Re: "help()" in Sage

2009-10-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:31 PM, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Oct 26, 4:50 pm, William Stein wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM, John H Palmieri >> wrote: >> >> >> > Trac ticket #6820 (http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6820) >> > makes the following change: >> >> >    sage: hel

[sage-devel] Re: "help()" in Sage

2009-10-26 Thread John H Palmieri
On Oct 26, 4:50 pm, William Stein wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM, John H Palmieri > 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.  Instea

[sage-devel] Re: "help()" in Sage

2009-10-26 Thread William Stein
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM, John H Palmieri 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() >    Welcom