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Re: interactive help on the base object

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From Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date Sat, 7 Dec 2013 21:23:37 -0800
Subject Re: interactive help on the base object
To Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Is it just me, or is this basically useless?
>
>>>> help(object)
> Help on class object in module builtins:
>
> class object
>  |  The most base type
>
>>>>
>
> Surely a few more words, or a pointer to this
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#object, would be better?

It's good enough to give anyone that's seen it before a reminder of
what it is. pydoc is useless or worse if you don't know anything about
what you're reading. For example, the HTML docs frequently point out
potential security vulnerabilities in usages of libraries where pydoc
does not. (The wording *is* awkward, though.)

-- Devin

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Re: interactive help on the base object Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-12-07 21:23 -0800

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