I'm running the Python 2.4.3 interactive interpreter
in a Konsole at a bash prompt:
$ python
>>> help
Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object.
But look what I get with Python 2.5.1 and Win XP:
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>>> help('topics')
Here is a list of available topics. Enter any topic name to get more help.
ASSERTION DEBUGGING LITERALS SEQUENCEMETHODS2
ASSIGNMENT DELETION LOOPING SEQUENCES
ATTRIBUTEMETHODS DICTIONARIES MAPPINGMETHODS SHIFTING
ATTRIBUTES DICTIONARYLITERALS MAPPINGS SLICINGS
AUGMENTEDASSIGNMENT DYNAMICFEATURES METHODS SPECIALATTRIBUTES
BACKQUOTES ELLIPSIS MODULES SPECIALIDENTIFIERS
BASICMETHODS EXCEPTIONS NAMESPACES SPECIALMETHODS
BINARY EXECUTION NONE STRINGMETHODS
BITWISE EXPRESSIONS NUMBERMETHODS STRINGS
BOOLEAN FILES NUMBERS SUBSCRIPTS
CALLABLEMETHODS FLOAT OBJECTS TRACEBACKS
CALLS FORMATTING OPERATORS TRUTHVALUE
CLASSES FRAMEOBJECTS PACKAGES TUPLELITERALS
CODEOBJECTS FRAMES POWER TUPLES
COERCIONS FUNCTIONS PRECEDENCE TYPEOBJECTS
COMPARISON IDENTIFIERS PRINTING TYPES
COMPLEX IMPORTING PRIVATENAMES UNARY
CONDITIONAL INTEGER RETURNING UNICODE
CONTEXTMANAGERS LISTLITERALS SCOPING
CONVERSIONS LISTS SEQUENCEMETHODS1
>>> help('power')
no Python documentation found for 'power'
>>> help('lists')
no Python documentation found for 'lists'
>>> help('classes')
no Python documentation found for 'classes'
>>> help('modules')
Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
help('modules')
File "E:\Python25\lib\site.py", line 346, in __call__
return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
File "E:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1645, in __call__
self.help(request)
File "E:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1682, in help
elif request == 'modules': self.listmodules()
File "E:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1803, in listmodules
ModuleScanner().run(callback)
File "E:\Python25\lib\pydoc.py", line 1854, in run
for importer, modname, ispkg in pkgutil.walk_packages():
File "E:\Python25\lib\pkgutil.py", line 110, in walk_packages
__import__(name)
File "E:\Python25\lib\site-packages\dmath-0.9-py2.5.egg\dmath\__init__.py", line 343, in <module>
NameError: name 'context' is not defined
>>>
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However, getting help for things like random, random.uniform, math, list, tuple, works fine.
For example,
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>>> help('random.uniform')
Help on method uniform in random:
random.uniform = uniform(self, a, b) method of random.Random instance
Get a random number in the range [a, b).
>>>
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Dick Moores
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