[issue12674] pydoc str.split does not find the method

2011-08-01 Thread thp
New submission from thp : If I want to get help on a method on a built-in class (e.g. list or str) I can use the help function in the interactive shell: >>> help(str.split) >>> help(list.append) However, when I try to do the same with the command-line utility "p

[issue4361] Docstring for "Lib/string.py" is outdated

2008-11-20 Thread thp
New submission from thp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The docstring in "Lib/string.py" in the source of "Python 3.0rc2" is wrong. It currently says "lowercase", "uppercase" and "letters" where it should say "ascii_lowercase", "a