Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.redatomik.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.008 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'importing': 0.05; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'broke': 0.09; 'whatever.': 0.09; 'cc:addr :python-list': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; '"exec"': 0.16; "'for',": 0.16; "'if',": 0.16; "'in',": 0.16; "'with',": 0.16; '2.7.3': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'somewhere.': 0.16; 'topics': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'import': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'installation': 0.23; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; "i've": 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'am,': 0.29; "doesn't": 0.30; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "skip:' 10": 0.31; '>>>>': 0.31; 'accidentally': 0.31; 'keywords,': 0.31; "skip:' 40": 0.31; 'maybe': 0.34; 'something': 0.35; 'case,': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'false': 0.36; 'system,': 0.38; 'needed': 0.38; 'skip:[ 10': 0.38; '12,': 0.39; 'sure': 0.39; 'even': 0.60; 'is.': 0.60; 'more': 0.64; 'mar': 0.68; 'topics.': 0.68; '2014,': 0.84; '2015': 0.84; 'otten': 0.84; 'to:none': 0.92 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=oxDwF9yNfGxs1wkg5eDfJgsCPZ7yIaYzr8AoWVH+l9s=; b=XSH7qAmKuSo+F7Wv7exO3FdNOpqcJA1HcOSJunm/6wt1uF1KCdyEZ+Pi1Pw8xqiQnJ GHc0/B6pg+0u+X6W6z39ly4n1n4/YFBXrDS1lawdbtUTEbhNiKJ3yOmXyP160ElzSudm DoTosAHJAML9R0k+6hFX6aZXwxEpzmoPqdIcvF1uUsmxzpA5PmdQDGblnwsPN9dWFDcd 4SGAfSpwsVKbqf2U4SxWJDVhabVMKtCKvMZia4Kx1t8bHUaRRbhWlF3+HU4XoM9M6JGQ meuivRsbWL7Jq7eoTPjX0nBp3DwioR/pYUTlf5d78Db/z1R/Kdw2h4pIltdkGv++JjiV Mx0w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.42.43.199 with SMTP id y7mr11592608ice.12.1431360473799; Mon, 11 May 2015 09:07:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <66312d54-de5a-4015-99b5-41d332559e00@googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 02:07:53 +1000 Subject: Re: code blocks From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 53 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1431360482 news.xs4all.nl 2851 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47933 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90407 On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:01 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote: > Though interestingly, my Py2 doesn't have any help >> on exec: >> >>>>> help('exec') >> no documentation found for 'exec' >> >> Not sure why that is. > > Path confusion? You may accidentally be importing Python 3's topics. > Try > >>>> from pydoc_data import topics >>>> topics.__file__ > '/usr/lib/python2.7/pydoc_data/topics.pyc' >>>> "exec" in topics.topics > True Peculiar. $ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from pydoc_data import topics >>> topics.__file__ '/usr/lib/python2.7/pydoc_data/topics.pyc' >>> "exec" in topics.topics False >>> topics.topics.keys() ['conversions', 'debugger', 'attribute-access', 'augassign', 'numeric-types', 'context-managers', 'bitwise', 'global', 'numbers', 'customization', 'in', 'floating', 'integers', 'naming', 'if', 'binary', 'raise', 'for', 'typesmapping', 'subscriptions', 'specialnames', 'typesseq', 'dynamic-features', 'bltin-code-objects', 'continue', 'dict', 'bltin-type-objects', 'import', 'typesmethods', 'pass', 'atom-literals', 'slicings', 'function', 'typesseq-mutable', 'bltin-ellipsis-object', 'execmodel', 'return', 'exprlists', 'power', 'booleans', 'string-methods', 'assignment', 'callable-types', 'yield', 'lists', 'else', 'assert', 'formatstrings', 'objects', 'shifting', 'unary', 'compound', 'typesfunctions', 'imaginary', 'specialattrs', 'with', 'class', 'types', 'break', 'calls', 'try', 'identifiers', 'atom-identifiers', 'id-classes', 'bltin-null-object', 'while', 'attribute-references', 'del', 'truth', 'sequence-types', 'exceptions', 'comparisons', 'operator-summary', 'typesmodules', 'strings', 'lambda'] Whatever. I've made a few messes on this system, maybe I broke something somewhere. In any case, help('exec') is what's needed for help on keywords, even if one particular installation doesn't have one particular keyword-help. ChrisA