Elias Zamaria added the comment: Sorry for the late response but I have been busy with various things. I may be able to work on this but I don't know when or how long it will take me. I would suggest that someone else work on it if anyone wants it done any time soon. I am sorry about this.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Jessica McKellar <rep...@bugs.python.org>wrote: > > Jessica McKellar added the comment: > > Elias, thanks for your patch! > > I think it's important to add the second part of Terry's suggestion which > gives the user a specific next step to take, namely: > > > Try help('help') for information on recognized strings or help(str) for > help on the str class. > > Can you add that to your patch? > > Additionally, we'll want to make sure we don't accidentally break this new > functionality. Can you add a few test cases, for example what happens when > you run help on a module (e.g. help("os"), 2) help on an instance of a > class (e.g. help(1)), and help on a string that doesn't have a special > meaning, (e.g. help("abcxyz"))? > > I don't see any existing tests for help(), but it is an instance of > site._Helper (as reported by type(help)), and site tests live in > Lib/test/test_site.py. It also gets loaded into builtins, so tests could > also live in Lib/test/test_builtins.py. > > ---------- > nosy: +Jessica.McKellar, jesstess > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue19980> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19980> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com