$ python
>>> help()
help> 'topics'
[snip]
CODEOBJECTS FRAMES POWER TUPLES
[snip]
help> 'POWER'
------------------------------------------------------------------------
5.4 The power operator
The power operator binds more tightly than unary operators on its left;
it binds less tightly than unary operators on its right. The syntax is:
power ::= primary[1] ["**" u_expr[2]]
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It seems to be case-sensitive Mr. Moores!
When I entered 'power' (like you did), I also got:
help> 'power'
no Python documentation found for 'power'
Try entering: 'POWER' (all caps, just like in the output).
Happy Programming!
--
b h a a l u u at g m a i l dot c o m
On Dec 5, 2007 6:31 AM, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> At 02:41 PM 12/4/2007, bhaaluu wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> =============================================================
> >>> 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
> >>>
> ============================================================
> However, getting help for things like random, random.uniform, math, list,
> tuple, works fine.
>
> For example,
>
> ============================================
> >>> 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).
> >>>
> ==============================================
>
> Dick Moores
>
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