[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

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[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: New changeset 9d49f85064c388e2dddb9f8cb4ae1f486bc8d357 by Terry Jan Reedy (Stéphane Wirtel) in branch 'master': bpo-33856: Add "help" to the welcome message of IDLE (GH-7755) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9d49f85064c388e2dddb9f8cb4ae1f486bc8d357

[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

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[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

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[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

Stéphane Wirtel added the comment: Hi Zach, in fact, it's not a problem with Python itself, but with Idle. I just downloaded a virtualbox image via (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/) and started the installation of Python 3.6.5 and when you execute IDLE,

[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

Zachary Ware added the comment: I suspect you either had a non-python.org version of Python, or had the embeddable distribution rather than a proper installation (the embeddable distribution should not be used unless you're embedding, hence the name :)). Either way, the standard

[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

Ammar Askar added the comment: Can't recreate from latest Python 3.6.5 downloaded off python.org > D:\Python365\python.exe Python 3.6.5 (v3.6.5:f59c0932b4, Mar 28 2018, 16:07:46) [MSC v.1900 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

Stéphane Wirtel added the comment: Hi Steven, On Thursday, I gave a python training with some Windows computers and I have executer python, just the REPL, normally, you have Python 3.6.5 (default, Apr 4 2018, 15:01:18) [GCC 7.3.1 20180303 (Red Hat 7.3.1-5)] on linux Type "help",

[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

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[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

New submission from Steven D'Aprano : What do you mean "type help"? help() is added by the site module, if you've done something to skip running the site module it won't be added. Can you give an example of what you are trying to do, what happens and what you expected? Are you running in

[issue33856] Type "help" is not present on win32

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