where is help file?

2007-09-14 Thread PaulS
new to Fedora7, typed python in interactive interpreter, then help(). Then modules to get a list of modules. Then module name to get info on a module but no help file. What is the help file name? Is there an environmental variable I have to set? Thanks, Paul --

Re: where is help file?

2007-09-14 Thread Carsten Haese
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:00 -0400, PaulS wrote: new to Fedora7, typed python in interactive interpreter, then help(). Then modules to get a list of modules. Then module name to get info on a module but no help file. What is the help file name? Is there an environmental variable I have

Re: where is help file?

2007-09-14 Thread Martin Blume
Carsten Haese schrieb new to Fedora7, typed python in interactive interpreter, then help(). Then modules to get a list of modules. Then module name to get info on a module but no help file. What is the help file name? Is there an environmental variable I have to set? There is no help

Re: where is help file?

2007-09-14 Thread Carsten Haese
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:20 +0200, Martin Blume wrote: AFAIK you have to import the module first, before you can get help on that module. While that is true of the help(module_name) form, this is not necessary in the interactive helper you start by calling help(). -- Carsten Haese

Re: where is help file?

2007-09-14 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-09-14, Carsten Haese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:20 +0200, Martin Blume wrote: AFAIK you have to import the module first, before you can get help on that module. While that is true of the help(module_name) form, this is not necessary in the interactive helper

Re: where is help file?

2007-09-14 Thread PaulS
Thanks everyone. Paul Neil Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007-09-14, Carsten Haese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 18:20 +0200, Martin Blume wrote: AFAIK you have to import the module first, before you can get help on that module.